Ayanna Pressley Quotes

I hate being ignored.

You have to remember, throughout my career, no one has ever really wanted to speak to me or wanted to sit down with me.

No stranger ever comes up and talks to me. I'm the invisible woman.

I've kept to myself, I've put my head down. I've gone to work. And I have felt undervalued.

I hate to be treated as if I'm invisible. I get incensed when people talk across me or refuse to catch my eye in a restaurant or shop.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

The world forgets about people who are not useful.

No one knows who I am and no-one cares. I could jump in front of a camera man and he'd just tell me to get out of the way.

I feel I'm anonymous in my work. When I look at the pictures, I never see myself; they aren't self-portraits. Sometimes I disappear.

I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

Even the most self-confident people, at one point of their lives, felt like outsiders or felt like they weren't being heard or seen or witnessed in some way.

I've always felt unclaimed.

If no one hears you, and no one listens to you, it doesn't matter how good you are because no one cares about you.

What I try to do is write about forgotten people, and, in a certain sense, we're all forgotten.

It's the most annoying thing, when you've got the answers, but you're not heard.

I spent a great deal of my life being ignored. I was always very happy that way.

I went to school, but nobody really noticed me. I just came to school, didn't dress up or anything - just a ghost. I just worked out and went out to the field and went the baseball route. That's how I've always been my whole life.

Sometimes you feel sad to be left out of a big debate.

My friends sometimes used to ignore me completely, and that would really upset me badly.

I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.

No one ever recognizes me.

I'm not invited. I'm not on the A list, haven't been on it in 20 years and my feet have never trod its red fluffy carpets.

I was kind of an invisible girl when I was young.

I still feel like no one knows who I am. I still feel anonymous.

That's the trouble with being me. At this point, nobody gives a damn what my problem is. I could literally have a tumor on the side of my head and they'd be like, 'Yeah, big deal. I'd eat a tumor every morning for the kinda money you're pulling down.'