Home / Quotes / Quote by Mary Catherine Bateson

Quote by Mary Catherine Bateson

“Moving is both liberating and debilitating. Undertaken too late, it is a very stressful process, one that sometimes seems to catapult people into frail old age, and undertaken too soon, it may preempt other possibilities. [p. 38]”

Quote by Mary Catherine Bateson

Book:Composing a Further Life: The Age of Active Wisdom

Work

Composing a Further Life: The Age of Active Wisdom

Browse quotes and source details for this work. more

Author

Mary Catherine Bateson

Mary Catherine Bateson is an American writer renowned for her research on culture, society, and anthropology. Born on December 8, 1939, she is the daughter of Claude L. Bateson, a prominent sociologist. Her work often explores complex social phenomena, emphasizing interdisciplinary approaches and creative thinking. more

You May Also Like

“We never promised we would stay the same,/But only we would shape our change/From this now single clay.[p. 82]”

Book:Composing a Further Life: The Age of Active Wisdom

Source: Composing a Further Life: The Age of Active Wisdom

“Kazu, now that she thought of it, realized that for all her headstrong temperament, she had never loved a man younger than herself. A young man has such a surplus of spiritual and physical gifts that he is likely to be cocksure of himself, particularly when dealing with an older woman, and there is no telling how swelled up with self-importance he may become. Besides, Kazu felt a physical repugnance for youth. A woman is more keenly aware than a man of the shocking disharmony between a young man's spiritual and physical qualities, and Kazu had never met a young man who wore his youth well. She was moreover repelled by the sleekness of a young man's skin.”

Book:After The Banquet

Source: After The Banquet

“To become happy, humans don't need many people in their life. Only one right person is enough to make anyone happy. To become happy, satisfy with what you have and whatever you gain.”

Happiness Happy Satisfy Md Naeem Aziz

Author:Md. Naeem Aziz

“He was not ill-fitted to be the head and representative of a community which owed its origin and progress, and its present state of development, not to the impulses of youth, but to the stern and tempered energies of manhood and the sombre sagacity of age; accomplishing so much, precisely because it imagined and hoped so little.”

Age Leadership Youth

Book:The Scarlet Letter

Source: The Scarlet Letter

“As people grow older, some of the ways they have contributed in the past may no longer be possible, but the challenge to society is not only to provide help and care where these are needed but also to offer the opportunity to contribute and care for others [p. 8]”

Book:Composing a Further Life: The Age of Active Wisdom

Source: Composing a Further Life: The Age of Active Wisdom

“Since few people arrive at retirement with an understanding that this transition will involve a rethinking of who they are, an interim pattern has emerged, in which travel offers a way of fulfilling deferred daydreams of adventure while the next stage takes shape. [p. 31]”

Book:Composing a Life

Source: Composing a Life

“Sorting gets harder as time goes on--it requires a sort of ruthless decisiveness, while indecision results in endless dithering. Five moves, they say, equal a fire. But those who haven't moved may begin to need a fire. [p. 38]”

Book:Composing a Further Life: The Age of Active Wisdom

Source: Composing a Further Life: The Age of Active Wisdom

“... active wisdom--an entire cohort with something new to offer to the world as years of experience combined with continuing health. [p. 52]”

Book:Composing a Further Life: The Age of Active Wisdom

Source: Composing a Further Life: The Age of Active Wisdom

“It's all about being in control of myself as an older woman who lives alone, and it's all about how I am going to do what I have to do to be as strong as I can be and be confident that I can do what I need to do as an older person. [p. 62]”

Book:Composing a Further Life: The Age of Active Wisdom

Source: Composing a Further Life: The Age of Active Wisdom

“After all, most of us have lived lives based on commitments made without any way of knowing where they would lead. The uncertainty is an essential element in commitment, the acceptance of consequences an essential element in fidelity. [p. 80]”

Book:Composing a Further Life: The Age of Active Wisdom

Source: Composing a Further Life: The Age of Active Wisdom