A lot of people would rather tour sewers than visit their cousins.
– Jane Howard
Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world.
– Jane Howard
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
She was a patron saint of the peripheral.
– Jane Howard
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.