Abigail Van Buren
Jeanne Phillips writes the "Dear Abby" column under the pen name Abigail Van Buren which was used by her mother, Pauline Esther Friedman Phillips.
5 Quotes
The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.
— Abigail Van Buren
People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.
— Abigail Van Buren
The less you talk, the more you're listened to.
— Abigail Van Buren
Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you’ve got to help pay for the piping. And the piper!
— Abigail Van Buren
Psychotherapy, unlike castor oil, which will work no matter how you get it down, is useless when forced on an uncooperative patient.
— Abigail Van Buren