Quotes By Jessica Savitch

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

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

My current goal is to place a moratorium on goals.

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

In real life, events seem much less dramatic.

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

I hadn't realized until I covered the police beat just how seedy crime is.

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

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

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

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.

The code of the road is, if there is anything to eat, eat; if there is a place to sit, sit; if there is a restroom, go.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Many senators have developed a canny sense of what will play best for the audience.

Being a novelty had its advantages.

How valuable NBC Magazine was in my career is questionable.

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