ABIGAIL MCCARTHY

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

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

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.

[Campaign life] demands a wife and family, ever faithful, ever admiring, ever at the side of the ideal husband and father.

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

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 despite the passage of years and many absences.

... 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.

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

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

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 faithfulness and joy of which we all had some primordial notion. The exchange of trust and the experience of understanding between two people was like a sign or witness to the possibilitity of eternal caring and understanding and communication.

[Campaign life] demands a wife and family, ever faithful, ever admiring, ever at the side of the ideal husband and father.

... 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.

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

[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.

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.

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 faithfulness and joy of which we all had some primordial notion. The exchange of trust and the experience of understanding between two people was like a sign or witness to the possibilitity of eternal caring and understanding and communication.

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

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

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 despite the passage of years and many absences.