Quotes About Visibility

The most emblematic working women in the West could be visible if they were "beautiful," even if they were bad at their work; they could be good at their work and "beautiful" and therefore visible, but get no credit for merit; or they could be good and "unbeautiful" and therefore invisible, so their merit did them no good.

The force of your gaze has a weight. Even sunlight resting on the ground weighs something. Your attention presses against its object, your eye projects it like a headlight. There's a flip side to it. Learn to go down inside yourself, dim the force of your presence. People's eyes will skate right over you. They'll see you; they just won't notice you. This works even if they're looking for you.

There are times When you may think that people are staring at you - They are.

It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see

The trouble with being punctual is that there's nobody there to see it

I feel really proud of myself for helping to put the ladies' game out there.

I am a proud member of the LGBT community and could never bear the idea that someone could say I was closeted.

I've been hearing from people saying they see me more than they do their city council member.

When I was a kid, Ellen DeGeneres and Rosie O'Donnell were mere blips on the gaydar; and they were both still in the closet.

I'm not sure a candidate ever feels his message is getting out.

Anytime rock and metal can get on mainstream TV at all, it's a good thing.

You go to Los Angeles or New York or Miami or Chicago, and you see Latinos everywhere; they are involved in every part of American society. That's why they have to start being represented in Hollywood, because an 'Americano' can't walk down the street and not see a Latino.

I love the art of acting, so whether I do it on film with a million people seeing me or I do it in front of 20 people in a class showcasing my art, I am going to act whether anyone sees it or everyone sees it.

I wanted people to see me, to change their minds about me.

Look at television and how comparatively few minorities are out there.

I think kids in every minority need to see people like themselves in books; that's an acknowledgment of their existence on this planet and in this society.

The floating pollen seemed to be his notes made visible, and the dampness of the garden the weeping of the garden's sensibility.

she, like all others, had moments of commonplace, when to be least plainly seen was to be most prettily remembered

In the gathering gloom only his white Nike headband and his white Nike shoes and the white stripe down the side of his dark Nike running suit were visible, as though there were no man at all among the trademarks.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

Every one of us is shadowed by an illusory person of false self. I wind my experiences around myself and cover myself with glory like bandages in order to make myself perceptible to myself and to the world as if I were an invisible body that could only become visible when something visible covered its surface.

Eyes that looked out into the world, that took in so cleverly light, shape, and movement--why should it be important what they themselves looked like? The thing is that it was. Not what we see, but how we are seen.

There's something to be said for visibility, something about being easier to love.

Connecting your story with a known entity—be it a politician, celebrity, or famous businessperson—acts as a de facto slant. Bottom line: The media want recognizable faces in their pages.