Abigail McCarthy Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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