Polly Bergen Quotes

I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you.

When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else.

Everybody else has been seen, been proven.

Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.

I'm too young for Medicare and too old for broads to care.

Our family were outsiders, and I've always had a sense of the outsider, the underdog, and a strong sense of justice towards people who are excluded.

What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.

If I feel any marginalisation, it's because the things that concern me aren't so important to other people.

To me age is a number, just a number. Who cares?

People who don't fit the mold are treated differently than those who do.

No one is asking what happened to all the homeless. No one cares, because it's easier to get on the subway and not be accosted.

I'm too young for Medicare and too old for women to care.

Old women especially are invisible. I have been to parties where no one knows who I am, so I am ignored until I introduce myself to someone picked at random. Immediately, word gets round, and I am surrounded by people who tell me they are my biggest fans.

I usually play disenfranchised youth.

There is an assumption that if you're young and pretty, you will get all these opportunities that are way beyond your musical foundation.

Just because we don't recognise someone from an area of our own lives, somehow it has become easy to simply ignore them and walk away.

Being an outsider means not being heard, not having a voice. It means being treated as a second-class citizen, being diminished in the eyes of others. We have all felt this way at one time or another, but some feel it more consistently. Unfortunately, our schools often do not embrace the talents of many of their occupants.

Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is done voluntarily by two equals.

I suspect the older you get the more invisible you become.

There are all kinds of people who continue to be largely ignored by advertisers, whose lives largely go unseen. They deserve their moment.

Now that I've experienced ageism, I don't regard it as a bad thing. It's been a transition to something more exciting and maybe edgier.

Everyone should have the same opportunity, and in many areas that's not the case because programs are built around the elite.

A Negro woman has the same kind of problems as other women, but she can't take the same things for granted.

That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen.

We decided to focus on women because no one was singling them out.