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

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Shana Alexanderwas 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. Kilpatrick.

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

Shana Alexander

American journalist (1925-2005)

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

American journalist (1925-2005)

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

Shana Alexander

American journalist (1925-2005)

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

American journalist (1925-2005)

Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope.

Shana Alexander

American journalist (1925-2005)

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

Shana Alexander

American journalist (1925-2005)

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

Shana Alexander

American journalist (1925-2005)

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

Shana Alexander

American journalist (1925-2005)

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

Shana Alexander

American journalist (1925-2005)

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

Shana Alexander

American journalist (1925-2005)

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

American journalist (1925-2005)

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

Shana Alexander

American journalist (1925-2005)