Quotes About Invisibility

The role of women has always been undervalued in the spy world, always undermined in terms of recognition. Unfairly so. It's a world that needs women.

When you're undocumented, you're supposed to keep your head down and be quiet and pay taxes, social security - even though people don't know that we do those things - and not say anything.

I remember the first article I ever wrote, and I saw my name in the paper, and I already knew I was undocumented, and I was thinking: 'How can they now say I don't exist?'

The interior nature of 'Basic Black' is central to its unfolding. Shirley Kaszenbowski, regarded from the outside, is the embodiment of the invisible woman. She is in her early forties, long married, with two children.

There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

You are created invisible spiritually, and invisibility is largely a matter of patience.

When fully united, without ego or weakness, we become the greatest invisible force this world has ever witnessed.

The great philosopher, Aristotle had this to say in regards to criticism. "There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

As an artist, I feel more strongly than ever that my job on earth is to tell the stories of the invisibles, and women have been invisible on film for a long time.

When I open many books, or most leading women's magazines, or see almost all TV shows, I don't find myself at all. I am completely anonymous. My value system is not there.

It's invisible, what women do. It's not rewarded as much.

Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.

I avoided the spotlight when I was a kid. I always knew, 'Hey, it wasn't me. I didn't do anything.' If there was a camera around, I hid from it.

If I was a spy, I would have a watch that would cloak me in invisibility.

Glass is the world's worst spy camera. If you want to surreptitiously take photos, I would not use Glass.

I've always enjoyed disappearing into a crowd in New York. As an actor, I love to spy, and it's hard to be a good spy if everyone is looking at you. Also, I'm pretty shy. I don't really like a lot of attention.

In my mind, I'm still this kid from St. Louis, Missouri, that nobody really knows.

You can be chased home or hit or called names or spit on, and it's over. You have the memory of it, but it's very different from the emotional and psychological experience of feeling invisible, of not learning the confidence to stand up in class and speak.

I was a mixed black girl existing in a westernized Hawaiian culture where petite Asian women were the ideal, in a white culture where black women were furthest from the standard of beauty, in an American culture where trans women of color were invisible.

The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.

I cannot experience your experience. You cannot experience my experience. We are both invisible men.

Who is the Forgotten Man? He is the clean, quiet, virtuous, domestic citizen, who pays his debts and his taxes and is never heard of out of his little circle.

I went over the heads of the things a man reckons desirable. No doubt invisibility made it possible to get them, but it made it impossible to enjoy them when they are got.

Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books