Quotes About Stigma

I eat carefully because people don't want to see a large person judging cakes. They'll think to themselves, 'That's what happens when you eat cake.'

When people dont know exactly what depression is, they can be judgmental.

Single mums do come in for a hard time. Society is incredibly judgmental. I know this.

I think people make a lot of judgments about me based on what I wear and all the things that I do.

'American Idol' gives people really wonderful opportunities, and they shouldn't take flak for what people do with that opportunity after they leave the show. A lot of casting rooms I was in, that was the only thing on my resume, and people would just be like, 'Oh, here's Katie Stevens. Another 'American Idol' girl who thinks she could be an actor.'

The important thing is this Just because I'm doing well doesn't mean that they're going to do well if they get HIV. A lot of people have died since I have announced. This disease is not going anywhere.

If you are an actress in L.A., on your 40th birthday they should just hand you the keys to the lunatic asylum.

We Latins are known for jabbering on.

We have stigmatised sleep with the label of laziness.

A sociopath is just a label and doesn't encompass the entire being of a person.

I don't like the intellectual label.

Hollywood likes to label everyone so you're easier to identify.

People label you the way they know you best.

I think growing up, people want to put you in a box and label you quite often, just because it's kind of easier, I guess.

I want to avoid being labeled a sexy starlet, even at the cost of not working.

Women get labeled 'bossy' when it's like, 'Maybe I'm a leader. Maybe I just know what I want.'

I am a criminal. Coming to terms with this aspect of my identity has helped me to see more clearly - with blinders off - the ways in which I have been encouraged not to feel any connection to 'them,' those labeled criminals. I see now that 'they' are me, and I am them.

It's not crime that makes us more punitive in the United States. It's the way we respond to crime and how we view those people who have been labeled criminals.

Labeling is not the best way to get young people to deeply engage in reading.

When you come off 'The X Factor,' you're more likely to be a failure than a success because people almost want you to fail. There's this kind of feeling that you're separate from everyone else. You get it from artists, people in the industry, people at record labels.

They always like to put labels on me.

I don't like labels, but if you have to put a label on it, I'm a gay man.

If someone labels you, it is very hard to shake it off.

Black men with criminal records are the most severely disadvantaged group in the labor market.