Quotes About Stigma

The ingrained image of black men being searched by the police feeds into the collective illusion that black men everywhere need to be policed more than others.

Sometimes actresses are just insane.

It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take his own life first. In fact, this act has been encouraged for centuries, and is accepted even now as an honorable reason to do the deed. How is it any different when you are under attack by your own mind?

People think abuse is just for women. It must drive men absolutely insane because men get abused as well.

I was insecure and ashamed. Unless you're gay, being gay has never been looked at as being cool. And I wanted to be cool.

I'm learning to believe that my epilepsy doesn't disbar me from being considered attractive, so if I think I look palatable in A&E I'll damn well Instagram it.

Hollywood hasn't changed. It is the most racist, anti-Indian institution in the world.

How many women have been in a mental institution because they've been called crazy when they're just not allowed to be honest or be who they are?

I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.

Bass players are always the intellectual kind, but nobody knows it.

People around the NBA really think that I'm dumb or stupid. But people that know me know that I'm actually very intelligent.

Digo la palabra en sueños, la digo porque se supone que no debo decirla. La digo porque es una palabra invisible… una palabra que suscita ansiedad, incomodidad, desprecio y asco

O que não falamos se torna um segredo, e segredos quase sempre criam vergonha, medo e mitos. Falo porque um dia quero me sentir confortável falando, e não envergonhada ou culpada.

Hysteria--a word to make women feel insane for knowing what they know.

Her detractors, starting with her neighbor John Winthrop, first governor of Massachusetts, derided her as the "instrument of Satan," the new Eve, and the "enemy of the chosen people." In summing her up, Winthrop called her "this American Jezebel"—the emphasis is his—making an epithet of the name that any Puritan would recognize as belonging to the most evil and shameful woman in the Bible.

The failure of dieting is that it promotes weight stigma by not recognizing that people come in all sizes and shapes and that each individual is worthy just as they are.

The token gay character is always so funny and so fantastic. That's happened a lot. Or they're often purely victims.

Every teenager deals in his or her own sexuality and has to face it and figure out how it can coincide with the rest of their lives in a healthy manner. And try to navigate it in our modern society, which is wrought with stigma and taboo and repression, and sort of as a result, these inner monsters that some teenagers really struggle with.

Not only a pregnant woman is an outrage toward ethics but also an attack on aesthetics. Motherhood degrades women, it turns them into cows. With the forgiveness of cows, my sisters.

Here, those kids are called nerds and geeks and dorks. This may be the only country where people make fun of the smart kids. Now that's stupid. I only hope that the engineer who built the bridge I drive across or the nurse who administers our vaccines or the teacher who teaches my kids was a total nerd.

Brand a man as a thief and no one will ever hire him for honest labor - he will be a hardened robber within weeks. The brand does not reveal a person's nature, it shapes it.

Since that time Saracen had been making a name for himself. That name was not 'Saracen'. Indeed the name was more along the lines of 'that hell-fowl', 'did-you-see-what-it-did-to-my-leg', 'kill-it-kill-it-there-it-goes' or 'what's-that-chirfugging-goose-done-now'.

Brand a man as a thief and no one will ever hire him for honest labour – he will be a hardened robber within weeks. The brand does not reveal a person's nature, it shapes it.

He loved the idea that he was mentally ill," said his daughter Monica, "and hated the idea he was an alcoholic"—that is, bipolar disorder was a bona fide illness, while alcoholism smacked of a shameful personal failing.