Quotes About Invisibility

The other America, the America of poverty, is hidden today in a way that it never was before. Its millions are socially invisible to the rest of us…. The very development of American society is creating a new kind of blindness about poverty. The poor are increasingly slipping out of the very experience and consciousness of the nation.

Sometimes I wake at night and worry that I might have disappeared in my sleep. That's what happens when nobody cares about you. Bit by bit you begin to disappear until people look right through your chest and head like you're made of glass. It's not about love; it's about being forgotten. We only exist if others think about us. It is like that tree that falls in the forest with nobody around to hear it. Who the fuck cares except the birds?

It is better to exist unknown to the law.' 

It is better to exist unknown to the law.

To remain unknown in this modern world: that, indeed, is real power.

The best thing to be in a city was anonymous. Failing that, however, notoriety would do.

Visibility is a trap.

The worst part about being a fat woman isn't that people look at you with judgment in their eyes. It's that most don't look at you at all. You cease to be a person for whom they need to account. They look over your shoulder, or at the ground in front of you, or they glaze their eyes and look directly through you. It's like being a ghost, but with none of the fun of haunting.

History is the fruit of power, but power itself is never so transparent that its analysis becomes superfluous. The ultimate mark of power may be its invisibility; the ultimate challenge, the exposition of its roots.

The ultimate mark of power may be its invisibility; the ultimate challenge, the exposition of its roots.

There was malware you could download from pirate websites, malware that you could send to other people's cellphones to find out their GPS locations. It could be sent to other people invisibly, attached to text messages. If he could get his hands on another cellphone and download

We cannot help but be interested in the stories of people that history pushes aside so thoughtlessly.

She wasn't hideous or shameful to look at, but she had prematurely reached the stage in a woman's life when no one noticed her entering or leaving a room.

I was surprised she'd heard us. When you're that low on the totem pole, you sometimes think you're so unimportant that no one can hear you. My sense of invisibility had made me loose-lipped.

When you're that low on the totem pole, you sometimes think you're so unimportant that no one can hear you.

We need to raise our voices a little more, even as they say to us, 'This is so uncharacteristic of you.' Invisibility is not a natural state for anyone.

We must remember that one of the most insidious ways of keeping women and minorities powerless is to let them only talk about harmless and inconsequential subjects, or let them speak freely and not listen to them with serious intent... To finally recognize our own invisibility is to finally be on the path toward visibility. Invisibility is not a natural state for anyone.

I am more than a face and a body. I am Hira. But no one wishes to know Hira.

This is the trouble with history. You can't see what's not there.

Age is cruel, and crueller still to women. A woman becomes a ghost when she stops being worth looking at.

Everyone is invisible to someone.

Technopoly eliminates alternatives to itself in precisely the way that Aldous Huxley outlined in Brave New World. It does not make them illegal. It does not make them immoral. It does not even make them unpopular. It makes them invisible, and therefore irrelevant.

Anna'd been born female, she'd grown into a small woman and, in the past ten years, had slid into middle age. If ever there was a cloak of invisibility, time and circumstances were trying to weave her one.

You become like a ghost in your own life