Jane Howard Quotes

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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
Time turns most of us into caricatures of our early selves.

Jane Howard
Rituals are vital especially for clans without histories, because they evoke a past, imply a future, and hint at continuity.

Jane Howard
The craze for genealogy... is connected with the epidemic for divorce.... If we can't figure out who our living relatives are, then maybe we'll have more luck with the dead ones.

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.

Jane Howard
Good families are much to all their members, but everything to none. Good families are fortresses with many windows and doors to the outer world.

Jane Howard
A friend of the heart is one who perceives me as one of the better versions of myself. We make good music, this friend and I, and good silences, too.

Jane Howard
An encounter group is a gathering, for a few hours or a few days, of twelve or eighteen personable, responsible, certifiably normal and temporarily smelly people. Their destination is intimacy, trust and awareness of why they behave as they do in groups; their vehicle is candor.

Jane Howard
It has been said of his postcards that they made the Lord's Prayer on the head of a pin look like skywriting.

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

Jane Howard