Quotes About Stigma

the issue becomes not whether a person has experience with a stigma of his own, because he has, but rather how many varieties he has had his own experience with.

In reviewing his own moral career, the stigmatized individual may single out and retrospectively elaborate experiences which serve for him to account for his coming to the beliefs and practices that he now has regarding his own kind and normals.

Morning and lunchtime are times when anyone can appear alone almost anywhere without this giving evidence of how the person is faring in the social world; dinner and other evening activities, however, provide unfavorable information about unaccompanied participants, especially damaging in the case of female participants.

deeming any particular BMI pathological is a political rather than a scientific act.

Las putas nunca debieron irse de aquella casa. El primero y el segundo oficio más viejos del mundo deberían estar juntos. Al fin y al cabo, entre el nacimiento de uno y otro sólo mediaron unas horas. El primero surgió para que cualquiera pudiera satisfacer las exigencias del amor; el segundo, para que nadie intentara satisfacer por su cuenta las exigencias del odio».

When the last nationwide smallpox epidemic began in 1898, some people believed that whites were not susceptible to the disease. It was called "Nigger itch," or, where it was associated with immigrants, "Italian itch" or "Mexican bump." When

I know that language will be a crucial instrument, that I can overcome the stigma of my marginality, the weight of presumption against me, only if the reassuringly right sounds come out of my mouth.

To behave unconventionally is liable to be misinterpreted.

I played a eunuch in 'Shabnam Mausi' with Ashutosh Rana and no one even knew when the film released.

People get devalued in Hollywood when they age, despite all their efforts to stay relevant and beautiful and young. They can't get jobs anymore.

For some reason, people love to hate a Cyrus. I don't know what it is, but I remember when I was a kid, and my dad was at the height of his success, all people wanted to do was make fun of me for it.

Even though half of my stint in 'Balika Vadhu' was positive, people majorly remembered me for the negative part I played initially.

All of my life I've been met with shock and disbelief if I've ever come out with anything remotely smart, as if people are thinking, 'how does this happy little Essex girl know anything?'

I am repeatedly asked in interviews exactly 'what's wrong' with me, and I always give them the same answer; I don't identify the name of my condition in an interview unless it's relevant to the context of the story.

You know, we think about addiction as a morally reprehensible choice, but addicts act crazy because, in a way, that they are.

I'm tired of cookie-cutter monolithic representation of black folks.

I wish that Bollywood weren't so youth and beauty obsessed when it comes to women. I think it is very 'under representative' of women in their 30s.

They're not going to have a homeless person on a poster representing New York.

Homosexuals cannot reproduce, so they must recruit.

How did sex come to be thought of as dirty in the first place? God must have been a Republican.

I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.

No day passes without a Democratic politician, a left-wing commentator, or, if I may be excused a redundancy, a left-wing academic labeling Republicans and conservatives racist.

I would walk into a room, and people would be like, 'Hide the children. Here comes the guy with AIDS.' That's very demeaning, and it really hurts your spirit.

What bothers me and hurts me is the fact that people assumed I was a bad mom.