Quotes About Visibility

You know, I think more people should watch women's basketball. It'd do so much for the game.

I like to describe myself as a proudly visible member of the most invisible segments of our society - older women.

There are tons of amazing women out there for girls to emulate but the media isn't celebrating them to the masses.

Where is women's sports prominently displayed with the men? Tennis is the only thing I can think of.

I believe, as they say, that you can't be what you don't see, and since I saw a lot of smart women in my life, education being at the center, I just mimicked that behavior.

Women's soccer is not heavily publicized, so when you have an opportunity to be in a big magazine that publicity can be good. It definitely helpes as far as awareness about women's soccer.

Women are important in the Pre-Raphaelite movement. But while their faces are seen everywhere- in oil paintings, watercolours, drawings, - their voices are never heard.

I want to see women onscreen the way I see them in society.

I love the plus (fashion) industry! It embraces a lot of women who would otherwise disappear into the background. I truly love what I do!

You want to see women your own age in films.

Many men and women enjoy popular esteem, not because they are known, but because they are not known.

I write for myself, first and foremost and I also write for people, mostly women, who just want to be seen and heard and all too often aren't.

Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.

It is impossible for a star to shine and not get noticed, even in the dark.

Excellence in obscurity is better than mediocrity in the spotlight.

Your tears are never invisible---there is always an insecure woman that lights up when you point them out.

Shine your light so bright, and no one will need a telescope to see you.

Stars are not praised for shining during the day, but at night.

The star, the person who's on the mic, always gets seen.

It is not overwhelming, like you are George Clooney, but at the Starbucks, at the 7-Eleven or walking around Manhattan or the Roosevelt Field Mall, I do get recognized. It's nice.

For me, stardom means when people know your name when you appear on screen.

When I was young, I realized that people were going to stare at me my whole life, so I might as well give them something to stare at.

I don't mind if adults stare. They should really know about my physical situation.

I don't think many people stare at people in wheelchairs because we see it regularly. I suppose if you see more in the media it will take away the curiosity.