Quotes About Stigma

Every father, brother, and husband should know about menstruation. It is not just about women; it is about men, too.

There should be awareness on menstrual hygiene among men as well.

Well, menstrual hygiene is a cause that is close to my heart.

Actors are always identified with certain parts. To some, Marlon Brando will always be the Godfather. That's just how it is, whether the character happens to be your own personal favorite role or not. You can't ever get away from it.

It's dangerous to get too far from what they identify you with.

Once you're known to be an alcoholic, that's how many people identify you, which could be a reason not to talk about it.

People don't necessarily identify me with doing adult things.

I think it is necessary to educate folks on trans issues and to make them aware of trans identities and normalise it, because it is normal. But when you're shielded from something, and it's actively censored, it takes a negative connotation.

There is no conscious choice of heterosexual identity any more than there is a homosexual one. The last person in the world who wants to be homosexual, for the most part, are homosexuals.

I'm not a dumb idiot just because of what I wear.

The world wants rock bands to be idiots.

All too easily I have had people dismiss food poverty as an affliction of the workless and idle, insinuating that it is a way of life only for those who choose it. Yet the reality couldn't be more different.

Disabled people are deliberately ignored because disabled people need more care and more money.

I was an illegitimate, well, I still am an illegitimate child.

I have had manic-depressive illness, also known as bipolar disorder, since I was 18 years old. It is an illness that ensures that those who have it will experience a frightening, chaotic and emotional ride. It is not a gentle or easy disease.

Depression is an illness and not a necessary part of healthy living.

When I was born, the wisdom was that homosexuality was an illness; that it was caused largely by somebody's mother, and a distorted relationship with the mother. And now, as I live my life - married to a husband, with kids - it's an identity.

I can't just expect people to know what to say. I have to make them see me as more than my illness.

Autism and seizures are the least known areas of illnesses.

It goes without saying that all mental illnesses are neurologically instantiated. But this says nothing about their causation.

If you don't support people with mental illnesses they are more likely to develop a physical illness too and that is challenging.

I don't have a problem with my image; it's other people who do.

People tend to associate anyone who looks and behaves differently with illegal or immoral activity.

Black people do not have AIDS because AIDS is a 'black disease'; black people are getting AIDS because most of them are immoral.