Quotes About Stigma

It didn't help that she was painfully shy and kept to herself, because then they just thought she was stuck-up, which she wasn't. She was just quiet.

Maybe that was why it was almost always the underclasses, the women, the people of color, the gay people, the ones who were already stigmatized as being vulnerable, availble, trapped by the body, who took the risk of the wire.

You are eccentric when you have enough money to not be considered crazy," Dominik

At the center of the way black male selfhood is constructed in white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy is the image of the brute—untamed, uncivilized, unthinking, and unfeeling.

there is no stigma attached to acknowledging a lack of love in one's primary relationships. And if one's goal is self-recovery, to be well in one's soul, honestly and realistically confronting lovelessness is part of the healing process.

Sexual promiscuity and sexual liberation were not one and the same.

I was a violent, bipolar, compulsive liar. I was a real American.

People talking on handless devices always remind me of mental patients talking to themselves.

Children born to unwed mothers,' he said after a long silence, 'have parts of their souls missing.

Obviously, I'm still building a name and reputation for myself. The stigmas that come with my past will remain there for quite some time, but I'm not afraid to challenge those things, and I never have been.

Boneless skinless chicken breasts don't give a damn about their bad reputation. They don't care that you think of them as pale, dry, and rubbery.

I have a bad reputation, I guess.

People feel feminists are aggressive, men-hating women with a little moustache. I think it's got a bad reputation because when feminism came into being, we were facing so much opposition that we had to be strident and aggressive.

For a long time trans people have always been a joke. Our reputation has always been the bottom of the barrel and it's not fair.

Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved.

I'm supposed to be this complete slapper, that's my reputation.

A reputation is really hard to live down.

Woman novelists seem to have a reputation for being dowdy.

Bilingualism used to have an undeservedly bad reputation; then it got an undeservedly exalted one.

Football sometimes has a bad reputation. Some of that is deserved... and some of it isn't.

I kind of have a bad-guy reputation.

I have a reputation for infamy.

I used to think that Bollywood is a place where actresses are required to expose. I didn't want to act in films.

If you're going to play a prostitute, you can't be too squeamish about that sort of thing. It's just part of the job, since the role requires it.