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01Undated

New links must be forged as old ones rust.

Jane Howard / quote

02Undated

Call it a clan call it a network call it a tribe call it a family: Whatever you call it whoever you are you need one.

Jane Howard / quote

03Undated

I have come to esteem history as a component of friendships. In my case at least friendships are not igneous but sedimentary.

Jane Howard / quote

04Undated

Parents however old they and we may grow to be serve among other things to shield us from a sense of our doom. As long as they are around we can avoid the fact of our mortality we can still be innocent children.

Jane Howard / quote

05Undated

Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world.

Jane Howard / quote