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When I look back on my life, I was invisible for so many years before I became invisible. I never did stand up for myself. If you don’t stand up before you become invisible, what chance do you have of making people pay attention to you when you aren’t there?
They’ve trained themselves not to notice things because the less they notice the more we’ll just take care of it for them.
–Calling Invisible Women
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Spending a morning staring at oneself was hardly the short path to peace of mind. It was the mirror, after all, that had driven Snow White’s stepmother around the bend with its unrelentingly frank assessment of the situation.
–Calling Invisible Women
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In truth, invisibility had done a great deal to heighten my powers of observation. Now that I realized how shameless people were in all they did not see, I made it a point to see more myself.
–Calling Invisible Women