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  • 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.

    Shana Alexander (2015). “Nutcracker: Money, Madness, Murder: A Family Album”, p.235, Open Road Media
  • Rumor and gossip, like sound itself, appear to travel by wave-effect, sheer preposterosity being no barrier.

    Shana Alexander (1976). “Talking woman”
  • trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell.

  • Hair brings one’s self-image into focus; it is vanity’s proving ground. Hair is terribly personal, a tangle of mysterious prejudices

    Shana Alexander (1970). “The feminine eye”, McCall Pub. Co
  • 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 (1970). “The feminine eye”, McCall Pub. Co
  • The price of shallow sex may be a corresponding loss of capacity for deep love.

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

    Shana Alexander (1975). “Shana Alexander's State-by-State guide to women's legal rights”
  • Ireland is not at all a simple place, and in many ways it is spare and sad. It has no wealth, no power, no stability, no influence, no fashion, no size. Its only real arts are song and drama and poem. But Limerick alone has two thousand ruined castles and surely that many practicing poets.

    Shana Alexander (1970). “The feminine eye”, McCall Pub. Co
  • When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband.

    Shana Alexander (1975). “Shana Alexander's State-by-State guide to women's legal rights”
  • Natural villains are hard to come by, what with all the shrinks and social-scientist types threatening to understand everybody into the ground.

    Shana Alexander (1976). “Talking woman”
  • Americans ought to be the best-traveled, most cosmopolitan people on earth, not only because experience of the world is desirable in its own right, but because as a people acquires a great concentration of power, worldliness becomes a moral imperative.

    Shana Alexander (1970). “The feminine eye”, McCall Pub. Co
  • Ours is the first society in history in which parents expect to learn from their children, rather than the other way around. Such a topsy-turvy situation has come about at least in part because, unlike the rest of the world, we are an immigrant society, and for immigrants the only hope is in the kids.

    Shana Alexander (1976). “Talking woman”
  • Tourists moved over the piazza like drugged insects on a painted plate.

    Shana Alexander (1970). “The feminine eye”, McCall Pub. Co
  • The Federal Building's large Ceremonial Courtroom, reserved for show trials, is veneered in executive teak. Bench, counsel tables, jury boxes, entrances, and exits -- all are as formally arranged as an Elizabethan stage. Only the drama is shapeless, at least to those of us who have never seen a trial before. We see only random movements, sequences, comings and goings, no form or agenda apparent. To us the action is less like watching a play than watching an aquarium.

  • Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope.

    Shana Alexander (1970). “The feminine eye”, McCall Pub. Co
  • In a nation of celebrity worshipers, amid followers of the cult of personality, individual modesty becomes a heroic quality. I find heroism in the acceptance of anonymity, in the studied resistance to the normal American tropism toward the limelight.

  • I reserve my greatest admiration for those who continue to struggle to embrace the whole impossible tangle of snakes that is our society; those who fight to identify and strengthen human connections, and defeat polarizing forces that strain to drive us apart.

    Shana Alexander (1976). “Talking woman”
  • As a general rule, fans and idols should always be kept at arm's length, the length of the arm to be proportionate to the degree of sheer idolatry involved. Don't take a Beatle to lunch. Don't wait up to see if the Easter Bunny is real. Just enjoy the egg hunt.

  • 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.

    Shana Alexander (1976). “Talking woman”
  • 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 (1970). “The feminine eye”, McCall Pub. Co
  • Mind and body are not to be taken lightly. Their connection is intimate and mysterious, and better mapped by poets than pornographers.

  • The notion that the great artist requires a great patron has been around since the Pharaohs. That the born patron also needs an artist to patronize is a less-studied phenomenon.

    Shana Alexander (2015). “Nutcracker: Money, Madness, Murder: A Family Album”, p.158, Open Road Media
  • This is what holidays, travels, vacations are about. It is not really rest or even leisure we chase. We strain to renew our capacity for wonder to shock ourselves into astonishment once again.

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    Shana Alexander (1970). “The feminine eye”, McCall Pub. Co
  • Between the two poles of whole-truth and half-truth is slung the chancy hammock in which we all rock.

    Shana Alexander (1976). “Talking woman”
  • Californians tend to be outspoken. When the great migration began, the more timid people must have stayed home, and the bolder ones headed west.

  • Good drama should sandpaper the mind.

    Shana Alexander (1976). “Talking woman”
  • 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.

    Shana Alexander (1970). “The feminine eye”, McCall Pub. Co
  • Rome's riches are in too immediate juxtaposition. Under the lid of awful August heat, one moves dizzily from church to palace to fountain to ruin, a single fly at a banquet, not knowing where to light.

    Shana Alexander (1970). “The feminine eye”, McCall Pub. Co
  • Until quite recently dance in America was the ragged Cinderella of the arts . . .

    Shana Alexander (2015). “Nutcracker: Money, Madness, Murder: A Family Album”, p.158, Open Road Media
  • the metabolism of a consumer society requires it continually to eat and excrete, every day throwing itself away in plastic bags.

    Shana Alexander (1976). “Talking woman”
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    Shana Alexander

    • Born: October 6, 1925
    • Died: June 23, 2005
    • Occupation: Journalist