Shana Alexander

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

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 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.

Secrecy is never so appealing as in a free society.

60 Minutes' was a disaster for me because it made everybody think that I was the house liberal of CBS, which is the part that I was playing. It was fun for a while.

Before I ever heard about '60 Minutes,' I had been a writer, a columnist for 'Life' magazine and for 'Newsweek' - that was about as high as you could get in column writing. I care about my writing. I'm not a quack-quack TV journalist.

In Mormon society and culture, highest values are placed on hard work, thrift, clean living, obedience to the elders and, above all, on the importance of the family.

Mormonism is a male religion, a dream of prophets and patriarchs.

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

Writing about your family is the hardest thing, unless you had the perfect happy family life, which very few of us have had.

In Utah, the American melting pot is unstirred. Three out of four people are Mormons, and they are all here in this bleakly beautiful sanctuary 'behind the Zion curtain' because of religious persecution.

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