Quotes About Recognition

Uh-oh, it's the somebody-nobody syndrome. If I win, I'll be somebody; if I lose I'll be nobody.

Why should men be allowed to strut under the privilege of their life adventures, wearing them like a breast full of medals, while women went all gray and silent beneath the weight of theirs?

In one way or another, all of us are blind to whatever privileges life has handed us, even if those privileges are temporary

Was sind das für Konstellationen in der Gegenwart, in denen zufällige oder angeborene Unterschiede ausgesucht werden, um daran soziale Anerkennung oder gar Menschen- und Bürgerrechte zu koppeln?

Nicht gesehen, nicht erkannt zu werden, unsichtbar zu sein für andere, ist wirklich die existentiellste Form der Missachtung.

It is possible to know people. They show you who they are. You just have to be looking.

People are so lonely, they spend their birthdays on the Internet, thanking people for wishing them a happy birthday, people who only know it's their birthday because Facebook told them.

Constellations exist because someone saw them, pointed, and someone else said, Yes, I see it too.

When people show you who they are, it is your job to pay attention.

She says you can't pretend you have nothing when you have so much.

If Van Gogh were walking around, everyone would run away because he had no ear, but if he was holding his paintings they would be nice to him. She's holding her paintings and she's good at it.

Most people like cheap mysteries and most people have never heard of Paula Fox or Hannah

Henderson promoted an idea that we could all be the center of attention all the time. But if everyone is onstage, who's in the audience?

being recognized, women

It's gratifying to know that you've appeared in someone else's dreams. It's proof that you exist, in a way, proof that you have substance and value outside the walls of your own mind.

Happiness is the ability to recognize it.

Having waited my entire life to get an award for something, anything...I now get awards all the time for being mentally ill. It's better than being bad at being insane, right? How tragic would it be to be runner-up for Bipolar Woman of the Year?

You're not really famous until youre a Pez dispenser.

I thought I was only seeing half the man But that was all there was to you You

we look for people that are gold in the place where we're shit and shit in the places where we're gold

They want you," he continued. There was a silence. "They do? I mean they did?" He laughed, then I laughed and dropped the phone and ran out into the front yard and into the street. It was raining. It didn't rain in L.A. It was raining in L.A. and I was Princess Leia. I had never been Princess Leia before and now I would be her forever. I would never not be Princess Leia. I had no idea how profoundly true that was and how long forever was.

It was hiding in plain sight. Mocking the suggestion that anything was going on; therefore, it couldn't be true. A technique I like to use to this day.

forever. I would never not be Princess Leia. I had no idea how profoundly true that was and how long forever was. They would pay me nothing and fly me economy—a fact that would haunt my mother for months—but I was Leia and that was all that truly mattered. I'm Leia—I can live in a tree, but you can't take that away from me. I never dreamt there actually might be a day when I maybe hoped that you could.

Who's more famous than Debbie [Reynolds] and Eddie [Fisher]? C-3PO and Darth Vader.