Quotes About Stigma

What do people have against convicts? Is living together in the pen of freedom, where young people engage in mutual psychology, any more beautiful?

Just because you're a man doesn't mean that you can't raise your kid. I think that families should stay together, but if you are a single father, don't give up no matter what they say.

Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel.

Birth is of course violent. Menstruation is violent. Trust me, if men's penises opened up once a month and shot blood, we'd be hearing about the violence of it.

If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.

If she'd spaced her children out and had eleven babies in eleven years, she would have been no better than her own mother and sisters: irresponsible, a welfare cheat, another bit of Sawdust Lane white trash. But as luck would have it, she'd had them all at once, and now she was, overnight, middle-class. And respectable.

TEN [exploding]. Bright! He's a common ignorant slob. He don't even speak good English! ELEVEN [slowly]. He doesn't even speak good English.

Up until now, the biggest question in society about video games has been what to do about violent games. But it's almost like society in general considers video games to be something of a nuisance, that they want to toss into the garbage can.

No matter what men think, abortion is a fact of life. Women have always had them; they always have and they always will. Are they going to have good ones or bad ones? Will the good ones be reserved for the rich, while the poor women go to quacks?

I've made so many movies playing a hooker that they don't pay me in the regular way anymore. They leave it on the dresser.

Ich zum Beispiel sehe aus wie immer. Wie eine Schlampe ungewissen Alters, die Männer auslutscht, Zigaretten verschlingt, auf hohen Hacken hockt, in ihrem Dekoleté nach Dingen sucht, nach Spaghetti oder ausgelutschten Kippen, nichts findet und sich darauf einen Mann ansteckt.

About magistrates he said: "To do that kind of job you must be mentally disturbed. If they do that kind of job is because they are anthropologically different from the other human beings"

Stereotyping reduces individuals to an average, whereas science recognizes that many people fall outside the average range for their group.

Never admit you have obsessive-compulsive disorder to someone who doesn't have it because they'll think you're crazy. But

Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.

My anger, because I am old, is considered a sign of madness or senility. Is this not cruel? Are we to be deprived even of righteous anger? Is even irritability to be treated as a "symptom"? There

Some women would be better off alone, but they feel they've got to get hold of someone to prove they're worth while," she said, sweeping the air with her arm and clapping her fist into her palm. If they do decide to be alone, part of their loneliness will come from outside, rather than inside. Society will pity them, look down on them.

a big man, who was himself protected by the shield of a bad reputation

I get accused all the time of having a big mouth. But if you ask me, guys gossip way more than girls do.

Nice girls finish last.

There's no such thing as crazy. There's no such thing as normal, either.

You know, there's nothing wrong with admitting you're depressed. Many, many people have suffered from depression. Having depression doesn't mean you're crazy, or a failure, or a bad person.

When you talk of not wanting children, it is impossible to avoid sounding defensive, like you're trying to prove the questionable beauty of a selfish and too-tidy existence.

The tendency in many parts of medicine is, if we can't measure it, it doesn't exist, or the patient is cuckoo.