Shana Alexander quotes

Shana Alexander was an American journalist, author, and columnist known for her work in print and television. Her spirited debates with James J. Kilpatrick on the television segment "Point-Counterpoint" made her a household name. She broke barriers for women in media and remains an influential figure in American journalism. Here are 13 of her quotes:

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

Shana Alexander

Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Shana Alexander