Explore Quotes by Shana Alexander

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.

The price of shallow sex may be a corresponding loss of capacity for deep love.

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

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

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.

Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

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

trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell.