Lynne Truss Quotes

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

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

I hate being ignored.

For too long, I have been overlooked. For too long, I have been disrespected. For too long, I had been too good.

At some point or another, everyone has felt unseen and unheard and marginalized.

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

I'm always going to be overlooked. That's just how it is. That's how the league is.

No one ever recognizes me.

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

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

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

I've always felt misunderstood. Growing up, it's been my word against the teachers' or my parents' word, and nobody would ever listen to me.

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

I think the whole boxing world was sleeping on me. They were sleeping on me hard.

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

I don't get no respect

Nothing again. No one is listening. No one is waiting to hear the kicking of a man above. It is unexpected. You have no ears for someone like me.

They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.

The hardest times for me were not when people challenged what I said, but when I felt my voice was not heard.

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

The world forgets about people who are not useful.

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.

I'm not recognised much at all.

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.'

I was never in the top category of anything. I was never on people's lists. I was never the potential anything!