"Shana Alexander" was an United States/American journalist, born Shana Ager in New York City on October 6, 1925. Although she became the first woman staff writer and columnist for Life (magazine)/Life magazine, she was best known for her participation in the "Point-Counterpoint" debate segments of 60 Minutes with conservative James J. Kilpatrick. She was a daughter of Tin Pan Alley composer Milton Ager, who composed the song "Happy Days Are Here Again," and his wife, columnist Cecelia Ager.

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Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is likely, and dancers know it.

Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell.

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband.

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

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

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope.

When the prima ballerina found ground glass in her toe slipper every other dancer in the company was equally suspect.

The Sugarplum Fairy herself could have made no grander gesture.

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