I don't think life offers any greater experience than the joyful sense of recognition when one finds in a new acquaintance a real friend, or when an old relationship deepens into friendship, or when one finds an old friendship intact… — Abigail McCarthy Copy Share Image
When I was young I thought of friendship as a matter of total loyalty and unchanging preference and I was often disappointed. But as an adult I had come to see that it was more the refraction of some total… — Abigail McCarthy Copy Share Image
By the very fact of public life, one seems to lose humanity in people's eyes. — Abigail McCarthy Copy Share Image
the apathy and inattention of the average citizen is beyond comprehension. — Abigail McCarthy Copy Share Image
I don't think life offers any greater experience than the joyful sense of recognition when one finds in a new acquaintance a real friend,… — Abigail McCarthy Copy Share Image
growth requires purposeful division. Responsible dissent is the essence of democracy. — Abigail McCarthy Copy Share Image
One is not allowed a grief for a life never lived. Yet one has buried the fruit of love, and a great deal of… — Abigail McCarthy Copy Share Image
When I was young I thought of friendship as a matter of total loyalty and unchanging preference and I was often disappointed. But as… — Abigail McCarthy Copy Share Image
... men of power are seldom protected from their own infirmities by the men subordinate to them -- not even in the sad circumstances… — Abigail McCarthy Copy Share Image
It is hard for many people today to make the distinction between religion and religiosity, the latter a dangerous parody of the former. — Abigail McCarthy Copy Share Image
[What she told herself before interviews:] I am the way I am; I look the way I look; I am my age. — Abigail McCarthy Copy Share Image
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