#red

I will only observe, that that ethereal sense - sight, and touch, which is at the other extremity of the scale, have from time acquired a very remarkable additional power. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#additional #extremity #i #observe #only

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

— Jessica Savitch

#considered #i #journalist #much #peers

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

— Jessica Savitch

#effort #had #joint #marriage #me

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. ↗

— Jessica Savitch

#anyone #autobiographical #best #me #occurred

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

— Jessica Savitch

#anchored #first #had #i #never

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. ↗

— Jessica Savitch

#assembled #camera #entirely #group #had

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

— Jessica Savitch

#covered #crime #hadn #how #i

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

— Jessica Savitch

#her #humored #i #in the beginning #me

Our free enterprise system of disseminating information is collectively referred to as The Media. But there is no collective. ↗

— Jessica Savitch

#collectively #enterprise #free #free enterprise #free enterprise system

The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months. ↗