Mary Catherine Bateson — American Scientist

Mary Catherine Bateson is an American writer and cultural anthropologist... (wikipedia)

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 timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.
Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.
Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.
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.