Shana Alexander
Shana Alexander

The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward.

Shana Alexander
Shana Alexander

Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope.

Shana Alexander
Shana Alexander

The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye.

Shana Alexander
Shana Alexander

Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man.

Shana Alexander
Shana Alexander

Telephone operators recognize my voice before I give my name, and say, 'Sock it to Kilpatrick.'

Shana Alexander
Shana Alexander

The graceful Georgian streets and squares, a series of steel engravings under a wet sky.

Shana Alexander
Shana Alexander

Writing about your family is the hardest thing, unless you had the perfect happy family life, which very few of us have had.

Shana Alexander
Shana Alexander

I couldn't have made it without knowing how to use laughter to get from one day to the next.

Shana Alexander
Shana Alexander

The majority of Utah's citizens do not merely approve the death penalty, they demand it - the state religion demands it.

Shana Alexander
Shana Alexander

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.

Shana Alexander
Shana Alexander

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband.

Shana Alexander
Shana Alexander

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.

Shana Alexander
Shana Alexander

'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.

Shana Alexander
Shana Alexander

People say to me now, 'Oh, it must have been so glamorous to grow up in hotels, eat in restaurants.' Of course, we hated it.

Shana Alexander
Shana Alexander

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.

Shana Alexander
Shana Alexander

The law changes and flows like water, and the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent.

Shana Alexander
Shana Alexander

I don't believe man is a woman's natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is.

Shana Alexander
Shana Alexander

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.

Shana Alexander
Shana Alexander

Until quite recently dance in America was the ragged Cinderella of the arts.

Shana Alexander
Shana Alexander

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.