Quotes from Jessica Savitch

You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone.

When I was a little girl in the 1950s, it would not have been possible for me to say, I want to be an anchorwoman when I grow up.

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

Mistakes are not always the result of someone's ineptitude.

Newscasters cannot call attention to themselves by being too attractive or too unattractive.

It had not occurred to me that marriage requires the same effort as a career. And unlike a career, marriage requires a joint effort.

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.

The relationship between talent and management is uneasy, at best.

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.

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

When I first anchored in 1970, I had never seen a woman anchor a news show.

The bad news is that 50 people died in a hotel fire; the good news is that we got exclusive footage.

The news anchor is exactly that - an anchor, a center, a focus.

News events cannot be controlled, nor can newscasts be mapped out like entertainment shows.

Women didn't want to watch other women on television because they were jealous of their husbands' diverted attention.

Being a novelty had its advantages.

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

Anyone who writes an autobiographical work at the age of 34 is, at best, presumptuous. It occurred to me that it was time to set the record straight.

The relationship between talent — a term loosely applied to those who work on-air — and management is uneasy, at best.

How valuable NBC Magazine was in my career is questionable.

News reporting is a cycle: No matter how much you work at sending a message, it's only successful if it's received.

By far my most perilous assignment was covering a tank car explosion.

Women may not have it easy, but we are given a fairer chance to reach for the top.

The better the coverage, the more discriminating the viewer.