Jessica Savitch's Quotes

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

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.

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.

Women were seldom given quality assignments or adequate air time.

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

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.

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.

Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus.

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

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

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

A fact of modern life is that it takes women longer to get ready than men.

I very much wanted to be accepted by my peers, to be considered a serious journalist.

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

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.

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?

In real life, events seem much less dramatic.

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

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

Men still control the news, both on and off camera.

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

To get it first is important - but more important is to get it right.

In every interview I have ever read or seen or taken part in, the final question in our future-oriented society is always, What next?

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

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

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

In the beginning, my mother humored me when I told her I wanted to be a reporter.

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

News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute.

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

Television is intensely personal.

Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain.