Insults to dignity leave wounds on the psyche just as stones do on the body. Over a lifetime, these insults add up. They rankle. We remember them, and they affect us in ways that are awkward to discuss. Who wants to admit they ever felt like a nobody? We all want to be treated with respect — today, tomorrow, until our dying breath. And if you've never been nobodied, and believe you never will be, you've never paid a visit to a nursing home.
— Robert W. Fuller, Somebodies and Nobodies