Quotes By Jessica Savitch

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?

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

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?

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

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

The minute viewers callin or write about your looks, they were not listening to what you were saying.

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.

Women were seldom given quality assignments or adequate air time.

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.

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.

The idea of stardom was difficult to grasp. It was like being schizophrenic; there was her, the woman on television, and the real me.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.