Quotes About Stigma

The only trouble here is they won't let us study enough. They are so afraid we shall break down and you know the reputation of the College is at stake, for the question is, can girls get a college degree without ruining their health?

The frustrating part of being tagged 'controversial' is people go looking for trouble where there isn't any to look for.

People ended up not thinking much of me. They saw me as a bit of a troublemaker. It's important to change people's impressions.

I've never kept my mouth shut, especially as my industry is so misogynistic. I've got a reputation as a troublemaker.

Sometimes when women come forward about sexual harassment, they're seen as a troublemaker.

Prostitution happens to you because of troubles you had. In reality no woman would choose to do that.

I am scared of stepping out of the house, because of what people will think of me. In our society, men and women are looked at differently anyway, and that's even truer if you are an actress.

We have all had, on all sides of the House - some truly appalling things said about us. I've been called a race traitor, a coconut, a sell out. It's horrible and it's never the kind of thing that should be normalised or accepted.

We did something that bands are kind of afraid of, or at least used to be, [which] is the YouTube scene. They don't want the YouTube stigma.

A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it.

I read all the great philosophers but most people just hear what they want to hear and it makes it easy for them to brand us devil worshippers.

I was thinking about picking up kayaking, but I didn't want anyone to think I had herpes.

I'm not sure anyone - and I could be wrong in this - grows up thinking, I want to be a single mom.

Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond, and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond. So if I played him, I don't want to be called the black James Bond.

Like in [the 1950s] if you wanted to ruin someone´s career in Hollywood you claimed he was a Communist. Nowadays, you want to ruin someone´s career in Hollywood, you claim they are Republican.

What real job - what political world - would want Spencer Pratt, with the stigma I've attached to my name?

It is hard to partner with someone when you become so radioactive no one wants to stand next to you.

There are a lot of disadvantages with the YouTube stigma, because no one wants to be known as just a cover band. It's all about the original music.

I just see a lot of people who are really terrified of the "f-word." A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists.

I think people want to put you in a box and close it away so that it makes them feel better. A lot of musicians get that.

I've learned that sometimes when people don't like what you have to say, and don't want to debate you on ideas, it's just easier to call you a dumb blonde from Fox News.

I think that women are afraid to say they don't want children because they're going to get shunned.

I come from a family and a heritage where you don't really go to therapy unless you're crazy. I want people to know that that's so not the case. It's enriching, and I've learned this new tool.

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