Shana Alexander

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

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 (1925 - ____) US news commentator In "Life," 8 Jul 1966.

Roughly speaking, the President of the United States knows what his job is. Constitution and custom spell it out, for him as well as for us. His wife has no such luck. The First Lady has no rules; rather each new woman must make her own.

A plane is a bad place for an all-out sleep, but a good place to begin rest and recovery from the trip to the faraway places you've been, a decompression chamber between Here and There. Though a plane is not the ideal place really to think, to reassess or reevaluate things, it is a great place to have the illusion of doing so, and often the illusion will suffice.

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

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.

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

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

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

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.