Quotes About Stigma

People think that Israelis are mean, evil people who only want to hurt Arabs all day.

Everything that goes outside the rules of Italian cinema has always been cursed.

There is no such word as item girl in the dictionary. People have created this word and I don't believe that I am an item girl.

One job I did turn down was 'How I Met Your Mother.' My character was 'creepy gay guy.' That was the character. The script said, 'Creepy gay guy gets in elevator every day with Jason Segel character and he's just being creepy.'

When I was growing up, it was so embarrassing to be from Jersey.

There is in England a saying that an anti-Semite is someone who hates the Jews more than is necessary.

The Jews are not merely hook-nosed but understand money instinctively.

If I was a normal player at West Ham and wanted to join a Chinese club, nobody would have said anything. But since I was a leader at West Ham and thought about that offer, I was suddenly a bad man.

Most of my jokes are racist - usually about the Irish.

Bald isn't like being ethnic or disabled. Everyone can and will make jokes about it and expect you to laugh good-naturedly, which you will.

They thought I was mad, and Russians are always sympathetic with mad men.

People take the mickey out of mental health, but it is very delicate.

Mental illness can happen to anybody. You can be a dustman, a politician, a Tesco worker... anyone. It could be your dad, your brother or your aunt.

Let's hope she's like the others, who look only at the surface. Let's hope she'd never think that a girl with black-velvet eyes and cut-glass cheekbones could be a witch.

In every language, labels for adulterous women are far worse than those for similarly adventurous men. When a woman is a "a slut," a man is merely a skirt chaser.

All boys belong in insane asylums.

It is a great irony that society tends to look down on those who sell their bodies, but not on those who lease out their minds.

I'm going to let people know that it's cool to have a child and be young and still be a good mom. It's really tough, but I'm doing it.

Twelve "shame categories" have emerged from my research: Appearance and body image Money and work Motherhood/fatherhood Family Parenting Mental and physical health Addiction Sex Aging Religion Surviving trauma Being stereotyped or labeled

Well, no. They are both serious epidemics, but shame is a silent epidemic. People understand violence and can talk about it. We're still afraid of shame. Even the word is uncomfortable.

Sometimes the simple act of humanizing problems sheds an important light on them, a light that often goes out the minute a stigmatizing label is applied.

Basically, men live under the pressure of one unrelenting message: Do not be perceived as weak.

For children, it's easy for everything to become a source of shame when nothing is normalized. You assume that if no one is talking about it, it must be just you.

Indeed, if this woman had lived in the reign of James the First, her appearance alone would have hanged her, almost without any evidence.