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

- Shana Alexander

In a nation of celebrity worshipers, amid followers of the cult of personality, individual modesty becomes a heroic quality. I find heroism in the ac…

- Shana Alexander

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 situa…

- Shana Alexander

A handwritten, personal letter has become a genuine modern-day luxury, like a child's pony ride.

- Shana Alexander

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

- Shana Alexander

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

- 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

Between the two poles of whole-truth and half-truth is slung the chancy hammock in which we all rock.

- Shana Alexander

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

- Shana Alexander