By far my most perilous assignment was covering a tank car explosion. – Jessica Savitch
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. – Jessica Savitch
I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise. – Jessica Savitch
The latest wrinkle is on wrinkles. There is a widespread belief that women cant grow old in television news. – Jessica Savitch
The very first time I was on a car in Atlanta, I saw the conductor – all conductors are white – ask a Negro woman to get up and take a seat farther back in order to make a place for a white man. I have also seen white men requested to leave the Negro section of the car. – Ray Stannard Baker
Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of car you drive, the clothes you wear, and so it would be patronising to go and talk like a welder. Weldings a mystery to me now. You cant go back, your life changes every day. – Billy Connolly