Quotes About Stigma

The thing about hearing loss is that no one can see it. Most people are so impatient; they just assume that the person with hearing loss is being rude, or slow-witted.

I guess I get a little impatient and frustrated when people ask what 'Manic Depression' is about.

There seems to be this impression that if I really am a psychotherapist, I can't be serious about it. They think there must be something fishy going on.

People want to label people and that's all they want to do. They don't want to get to know them, they don't want to understand the story, in-depth.

I think women believed for a long time that it was inappropriate for them to be interested in true crime. It made them judge themselves, or feel weird or ghoulish.

The claim that if people had a basic income they would become lazy is prejudiced and has been refuted many times in many places.

And the danger is - and it's happening - is we're seeing an incredibly big rise amongst young gay people, young heterosexual people as far as catching HIV, which is, you know, in an educated country like this or in Britain, it's frightening.

When India got independence, entrepreneurs were seen as a bad lot, as people who would exploit.

Anti-Semitism being what it is—a continuously mutating virus, an incurable form of madness

The total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.

Reclaiming the word 'fat' was the most empowering step in my progress. I stopped using it for insult or degradation and instead replaced it with truth, because the truth is that I am fat, and that's ok. So now when someone calls me fat, I agree, whereas before I would get embarrassed and emotional.

In their minds, women can't do anything wrong.

Most men like you are always interested in women like myself, but what they fail to see is this is my job, it isn't necessarily who I am. People tend to meld the two and fail to realize that distinction.

Just because women whore doesn't mean they don't have hopes or dreams or desires of their own. There is little glamour in taking strange men into your bed.

Archer got the distinct impression that he'd offended her. An offended whore?

Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all.

If a white man falls off a chair drunk, it's just a drunk. If a Negro does, it's the whole damn Negro race.

They lie about marijuana. Tell you pot-smoking makes you unmotivated. Lie! When you're high, you can do everything you normally do just as well — you just realize that it's not worth the fucking effort. There is a difference.

I know this is not a very popular idea. You don't hear it too often any more … but it's the truth. I have taken drugs before and … I had a real good time. Sorry. Didn't murder anybody, didn't rape anybody, didn't rob anybody, didn't beat anybody, didn't lose – hmm – one fucking job, laughed my ass off, and went about my day. Sorry. Now, where's my commercial?

Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease.

I also turn down what's probably a good amount of coinage to be made out of playing dads, an incredible number of obnoxious dad.

Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read / write about.

Our idea of a healthy body is so destabilised that insecure people have come to bolster their own bodies by deeming others - those with fat bodies - less worthy, less capable and less employable.

Sometimes I've been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.