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Shana Alexander Quotes

1925–2005 United States

Shana Alexander (6 October 1925 – 23 June 2005) was an American journalist. Although she became the first woman staff writer and columnist for Life magazine, she was best known for her participation in the "Point-Counterpoint" debate segments of 60 Minutes, in the late 1970s, with conservative James J.

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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

The Feminine Eye (1970)

Faithful horoscope-watching, practiced daily, provides just the sort of small but warm and infinitely reassuring fillip that gets matters off to a spirited start.

A delicious appeal to unreason (2005)

We strain to renew our capacity for wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again.

The Feminine Eye (1970)

Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is likely, and dancers know it.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Shana Alexander (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.