Invisible Lives Quotes

My story is one of millions, and the others aren't often told.

An androgynous mind was not a male mind. It was a mind attuned to the full range of human experience, including the invisible lives of women.

When passerby's ignore homeless people, they don't know if that was a man or woman in uniform previously. They should not be invisible. They cannot be ignored.

There must be a lot of people in the world being wondered about by people who don't see them anymore.

My interest generally is the hidden Americans; the ones who live far away from the headlines.

Most men have no purpose but to exist, Abraham; to pass quietly through history as minor characters upon a stage they cannot even see

unloved women have no biographies-- they have histories

My only agenda is to bring attention to otherwise ignored and shunned lives.

An abiding preoccupation for me is how much of our lives are invisible and unknown by other people, like the Chekhov story 'The Lady With the Little Dog.'

I think there are many more stories still to be told about women.

Each time a Palestinian or an Israeli dies, it is terrible. But they have the right to have a funeral, to be buried, to have a place in the memory of the survivors. And then you have these other places - Darfur, Rwanda, even Colombia - where the dead have no faces and literally cannot be counted. Theirs are minuscule lives moving toward imperceptible deaths. For me, it is the essence of tragedy.