Abigail McCarthy

By the very fact of public life, one seems to lose humanity in people's eyes.

— Abigail McCarthy

the apathy and inattention of the average citizen is beyond comprehension.

— Abigail McCarthy

I don't think life offers any greater experience than the joyful sense of recognition when one finds in a new acquaintance a…

— Abigail McCarthy

growth requires purposeful division. Responsible dissent is the essence of democracy.

— Abigail McCarthy

One is not allowed a grief for a life never lived. Yet one has buried the fruit of love, and a great…

— Abigail McCarthy

When I was young I thought of friendship as a matter of total loyalty and unchanging preference and I was often disappointed.…

— Abigail McCarthy

... men of power are seldom protected from their own infirmities by the men subordinate to them -- not even in the…

— Abigail McCarthy

It is hard for many people today to make the distinction between religion and religiosity, the latter a dangerous parody of the…

— Abigail McCarthy

[What she told herself before interviews:] I am the way I am; I look the way I look; I am my age.

— Abigail McCarthy