Shana Alexander Quotes

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. Shana Alexander

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous. Shana Alexander

Roughly speaking, the President of the United States knows what his job is. Constitution and custom spell it out, for him as well as for us. His wife has no such luck. The First Lady has no rules; rather each new woman must make her own. Shana Alexander

Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope. Shana Alexander