Dear Abby Quotes

#1. People who write to 'Dear Abby' don't always have the most earthshaking problems in the world.

Jeanne Phillips

#2. I was a big and un-ironic fan of Dear Abby when I was a kid in Chicago. I think I sort of internalized her. So I have this inner Abby: cranky, proper, folksy yet scathing, with a beehive hairdo. But that's my issue.

George Saunders

#3. Dear Abby has had her day, now it's my turn!

Barbara "Cutie" Cooper

#4. You could move.'
"Dear Abby" responds to a reader who complained that a gay couple was moving in across the street and wanted to know what he could do to improve the quality of the neighborhood.

Abigail Van Buren

#5. I'm lyric conscious. I like to tell stories, give advice. Instead of writing a 'Dear Abby' column, I do it on records.

Betty Wright

#6. It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from 'Dear Abby' instead of going to Mom and Dad.

Pauline Phillips

#7. A letter to Dear Abby: I am a twenty-three-year-old liberated woman who has been on the pill for two years. It's getting pretty expensive and I think my boyfriend should share half the cost, but I don't know him well enough to discuss money with him.* (f)

Walker Percy

#8. We live in a melting pot. More and more, people are some kind of mixture. Even if you're Caucasian, you're a mixture of something.

Brooklyn Sudano

#9. I think an old style of addressing environmental problems is ebbing, but the rise of the so-called conservative, political movement in this country is not a trend towards the future but a reaction to this very broad shift that we are undergoing.

Paul Hawken

#10. The stars are always there, even in the daytime. Sometimes we just can't see them.

Marian Keyes

#11. It is the generation of the unemphatic. Steal, kill, lie, fornicate, but beware of indulging with conviction.

Beryl Bainbridge

#12. Friendship is tested in the thick years of success rather than in the thin years of struggle.

Barry Humphries

#13. We had a great dramatic society in school, and that's where I first got exposure both as an actor and director.

Randeep Hooda

#14. I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed and the number of times I succeed is in direct porption to the number of times I can fail and keep trying.

Tom Hopkins

#15. Miracles may be, for anything we know to the contrary, phenomena of a higher order of God's laws, superior to, and, under certain conditions, controlling the inferior order known to us as the ordinary laws of nature.

Charles Babbage

#16. Road to hell paved in unbought stuffed dogs. Not my fault.

Ernest Hemingway,

#17. David Foster Wallace, in my opinion, is one of the greatest writers we've ever had, certainly in the last twenty years. His obvious dominance of the English language is partnered with honest moments and the most beautifully dark sensibility.

John Krasinski

#18. Idiot, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling.

Ambrose Bierce