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

- Abigail Mccarthy

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.

- Abigail Mccarthy

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

- 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 real friend, or when an …

- Abigail Mccarthy

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 c…

- Abigail Mccarthy

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

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

- Abigail Mccarthy

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

- Abigail Mccarthy

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

- Abigail Mccarthy