Quotes by Jessica Savitch

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.