“The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.”
The Feminine Eye (1970), p. 33
Shana Alexander was an American journalist. Although she became the first woman staff writer and columnist for Life magazine, she was best known for her participation in the "Point-Counterpoint" debate segments of 60 Minutes, in the late 1970s, with conservative James J. Kilpatrick. Wikipedia
“The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.”
The Feminine Eye (1970), p. 33
A delicious appeal to unreason (2005) http://books.google.com/books?id=XVYEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA18&lpg=PA18&dq=%22Faithful+horoscope-watching,+practiced+daily,+provides+just+the+sort+of+small+but+warm+and+infinitely+reassuring+fillip+that+gets+matters+off+to+a+spirited+start.%22&source=bl&ots=WlTZPOXd1a&sig=B7LI5-SEDOdMddoH_OQp3QlQMOE&hl=en&ei=EJY7TOSIK8XdnAfe-6XfAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CDAQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=%22Faithful%20horoscope-watching%2C%20practiced%20daily%2C%20provides%20just%20the%20sort%20of%20small%20but%20warm%20and%20infinitely%20reassuring%20fillip%20that%20gets%20matters%20off%20to%20a%20spirited%20start.%22&f=false
“We strain to renew our capacity for wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again.”
The Feminine Eye (1970), p. 169