Nurse: “Doctor! There’s an invisible man in the waiting room!” Doctor: “Tell him I can’t see him right now.” Not only did my friends and I share incredibly hilarious jokes like the preceding when we ...
One of the biggest fears we have about aging is of becoming invisible, irrelevant to the world. Women, who are valued for their appearance first and foremost in our society, tend to feel this ...
“Susie” wears the cloak of invisibility. She is a good girl who recognizes there are problems in her family and the best thing she can do for her parents is to be a good girl, not cause any more ...
To become invisible, to move through the world unseen: it is a primal, universal fantasy. Most people who indulge it probably imagine the advantages that H.G. Wells’ The Invisible Man expected from it ...
If you’ve dipped your feet into the waters of psychology — scratch that, if you’ve dipped even a single toe into the waters of any psychologically related discipline — then I’m willing to bet you’ve ...
In the circles in which I travel—very small and strange circles, but circles nonetheless—the question of “which superpower would you want” comes up quite often. While others would usually answer super ...
PAULINA PORIZKOVA: I mean, aging well from the point of view of society seems to be not to age. I don't like not being counted as a woman. I don't like being dismissed to the senior table when I feel ...
Between finding a bizarre UFO in her yard and being called out for her embarrassingly poor understanding of snakes, Taylor Swift has had a rough year. No wonder, then, that she fantasizes about being ...