Shana Alexander

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

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

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

At Gatling-gun tempo word-perfect the first time out. the journalistic equivalent of a high-wire front somersault without a net.

An artificial style of dance confected for 18th-century kings evolved into a popular American art form. an astonishing development for what until recently had been considered manna for aesthetes only, the quiche of the performing arts.

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

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

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

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

The Sugarplum Fairy herself could have made no grander gesture.

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

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

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.

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.

Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope.

When the prima ballerina found ground glass in her toe slipper ... every other dancer in the company was equally suspect.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.