Jessica Savitch Quotes

In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent.

Shootouts are not gunfights of honor, they're gang wars and racial riots.

I have had a lifelong phobia of snakes.

The latest wrinkle is on wrinkles. There is a widespread belief that women can't grow old in television news.

To get it first is important - but more important is to get it right.

I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise.

Men still control the news, both on and off camera.

In the beginning, my mother humored me when I told her I wanted to be a reporter.

Although I was entirely relaxed on camera, if I had to stand up and say something to an assembled group of people, I was rendered all but inarticulate.

Many senators have developed a canny sense of what will play best for the audience.

Texas was defined by its larger-than-life characters, particularly politicians.