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

The middle-aged woman is the ground bed of the audience that watches television, and yet they are absolutely invisible.

Some women say as they get older they're no longer noticed: they disappear. Men, for instance, don't see them. Nobody wants them. That doesn't happen to me because of who I am. Not because I'm any more scintillating company, but because I'm Ruth Rendell.

I like to describe myself as a proudly visible member of the most invisible segments of our society - older women.

Older men get lovable, and older women get monstrous.

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.

There are forms of oppression and domination which become invisible - the new normal.

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.