Quotes from Jessica Savitch

What is the value of sticking a microphone in a man's face right after he has learned of his wife's death?

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.

For every two minutes of glamour, there are eight hours of hard work.

The idea of stardom was difficult to grasp. It was like being schizophrenic; there was her, the woman on television, and the real me.

Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good television news is always substance over form.

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

A press card does not provide you with an invisible shield. You're flesh and blood.

In real life, events seem much less dramatic.

The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months.

The single life is not one I willingly chose for myself.

Every time I am in danger of believing the glamour of my own press, some incident inevitably brings me back to earth.

Women were seldom given quality assignments or adequate air time.

When for so long you can't get a job for reasons that seem specious, you you finally do have it, you are constantly afraid of losing it.

Our free enterprise system of disseminating information is collectively referred to as The Media. But there is no collective.

I don't exactly know what it means to be ready. A cake when the oven timer goes off? Am I fully baked, or only half-baked?

One reason I left local news was that I was tired of the constant musical chairs among news directors.

My most lucrative job in college was a stint as the regional Dodge Girl.

Walking into a room filled with people you don't know but who know you brings out your worst vulnerabilities.

My goal was to be a network correspondent by the time I was 30.

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

Television is intensely personal.

It is my belief that one's salary is between an individual and the IRS.

I have had a lifelong phobia of snakes.

No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.