Shana Alexander

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

Hair brings ones self image into focus it is vanitys proving ground. Hair is terribly personal a tangle of mysterious prejudices.

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.

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

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

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.

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

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

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

The graceful Georgian streets and squares, a series of steel engravings under a wet sky.

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

Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope.

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.

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

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