Shana Alexander Quotes

Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man.
I don't believe man is a woman's natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is.
Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope.
The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man.
The graceful Georgian streets and squares, a series of steel engravings under a wet sky.
The law changes and flows like water, and the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent.
The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward.
The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye.
The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.
Until quite recently dance in America was the ragged Cinderella of the arts.
What troubles me is not that movie stars run for office, but that they find it easy to get elected. It should be difficult. It should be difficult for millionaires, too.
When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband.
'60 Minutes' was a disaster for me because it made everybody think that I was the house liberal of CBS, which is the part that I was playing. It was fun for a while.
Before I ever heard about '60 Minutes,' I had been a writer, a columnist for 'Life' magazine and for 'Newsweek' - that was about as high as you could get in column writing. I care about my writing. I'm not a quack-quack TV journalist.
Every time I get ready to chuck it, I remind myself that I can accomplish a lot in that little minute, and they remember what I say.
I couldn't have made it without knowing how to use laughter to get from one day to the next.
I have been active as a writer and journalist for nearly forty years. But the number of great reporters I have run across in that time would make, as they say, a slim book. Without question, the top man on my list would be Tommy Thompson.
In Mormon society and culture, highest values are placed on hard work, thrift, clean living, obedience to the elders and, above all, on the importance of the family.
In Utah, the American melting pot is unstirred. Three out of four people are Mormons, and they are all here in this bleakly beautiful sanctuary 'behind the Zion curtain' because of religious persecution.
Mormonism is a male religion, a dream of prophets and patriarchs.
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Shana Alexander
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06 October, 1925
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23 June, 2005
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