Shana Alexander

Shana Alexander (6 October 1925 – 23 June 2005) was an American journalist. Although she became the first woman staff writer and columnist for Life magazine, she was best known for her participation in the "Point-Counterpoint" debate segments of 60 Minutes, in the late 1970s, with conservative James J. Kilpatrick.

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"The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous."

- Shana Alexander

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"We strain to renew our capacity for wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again."

- Shana Alexander

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"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."

- Shana Alexander

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