Calling Invisible Women Quotes

“I first noticed I was missing on a Thursday.”
― Jeanne Ray, Calling Invisible Women

“You're just going to bear witness to his life. I think sometimes that's the greatest gift we can give one another.”
― Jeanne Ray, Calling Invisible Women

“Had I ever spent the day in our neighborhood public high school as an invisible woman while my children were still enrolled there, I no doubt would have insisted on home schooling.”
― Jeanne Ray, Calling Invisible Women

“Stop making excuses for them. … They have eyes! They can see that the toilet paper roll needs changing and the wastebasket is full and that there is no more orange juice and we drink orange juice and orange juice is sold in grocery stores. They’ve trained themselves not to notice things because the less they notice the more we’ll just take care of it for them. They say, you should have told me you wanted my help when we had twelve people coming over for dinner! You should have told me not to sit in front of the computer looking at football scores while you’re running around doing everything by yourself. If you needed my help why didn’t you ask for it? I didn’t know you needed help. It’s madness.”
― Jeanne Ray, Calling Invisible Women

“We are tanks and guns. We are force of history. We will crush them beneath our heels like bugs.”
― Jeanne Ray, Calling Invisible Women

“The truth, we realize as we get older, is a very complicated pastiche of feelings and facts, of what can and cannot be said. It’s different for everyone.”
― Jeanne Ray, Calling Invisible Women

“She’s like a bonfire on the darkest night of the year, a bonfire on a prairie in a snowstorm. You can’t help yourself, you’re going to turn in her direction, and she’s doing nothing to make this happen.”
― Jeanne Ray, Calling Invisible Women

“You’re not going to do anything, to fix anything,” Irene said as she drove me to the office. “You’re just going to bear witness to his life. I think sometimes that’s the greatest gift we can give one another.”
― Jeanne Ray, Calling Invisible Women

“Maybe he’s feeling unseen,” she said. “It’s possible that that’s the lesson in all of this, not who sees you but who you can learn to see.”
― Jeanne Ray, Calling Invisible Women

“information in the ad.”
― Jeanne Ray, Calling Invisible Women

“Calvino”
― Jeanne Ray, Calling Invisible Women

“We had found the place from which we were all lit from within, and oh, we were shining.”
― Jeanne Ray, Calling Invisible Women