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. – Jessica Savitch
The minute viewers callin or write about your looks, they were not listening to what you were saying. – Jessica Savitch
A press card does not provide you with an invisible shield. You’re flesh and blood. – Jessica Savitch
Newscasters cannot call attention to themselves by being too attractive or too unattractive. – Jessica Savitch
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. – Jessica Savitch
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
News events cannot be controlled, nor can newscasts be mapped out like entertainment shows. – Jessica Savitch
I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise. – Jessica Savitch
The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months. – Jessica Savitch
Women didn’t want to watch other women on television because they were jealous of their husbands’ diverted attention. – Jessica Savitch
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. – Jessica Savitch