Marae - Wahine Māori: Jan Wharekawa

They’ve produced things in me that I’m fully aware would never have happened had it not been for them.

– Jan Wharekawa on the experience of motherhood

The times that I worked in television for many years I was not aware that I lived from the inside out . . . Often I could attack things externally and I’d meet a point where, you know, the external wasn’t enough, wasn’t satisfying.

– Jan Wharekawa describes her time working in television

Jan is not enitely of this world . . . She operates on a slightly mystical level, I think. She’s sort of as apart as she is involved.

– Colin Hogg describes about Jan Wharekawa

There is something in my whakamoemiti (faith) that keeps me strong.

– Jan Wharekawa on the importance of her faith