Mary Catherine Bateson

"No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a really nice man who wishes she were not. "

"Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain. "

"The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors. "

"The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful. "

"The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe. "