Quotes About Stigma

She's a whore, that one, Pam said.

Where I'm from, to do acting is not heard of. Being one of the lads and all, you don't just go, 'Oh, I want to be an actor'. They'd laugh and joke about it.

At Rada, I was cast as Lady Macbeth and tried to do it as seriously as I could, but people still started laughing. I just think they find my face too funny.

I'd rather be a lady of the evening than a feminist.

I'm not a crazy old cat lady!

Women who have abortions are people you know. Because that is the truth! One in three American women will have an abortion by menopause.

It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass.

I have a chemical imbalance that, in its most extreme state, will lead me to a mental hospital.

Mental illnesses are so frightening and there's so much ignorance about them that I think it comforts people to think, 'Oh, well, it happens to these people because they deserve it.'

Mental health is something that's really important to me.

It's so important that we all speak up on mental health.

We should open the conversation of mental health and start discussing it in classrooms, and among each other. Especially in the black community - that's not something we talk about.

Mental health is something that I'm very interested in.

Mental health doesn't care what your name is or what you do for a living.

There are lots of people with mental health disabilities, and that's just the way their life is; it's not like you see it in the movies.

A little whiff of a mental health issue never hurt anybody.

When you've got society calling you a burden and talking about how much money you're costing the state, it's bound to impact negatively on your mental health.

The way things are today, people need to talk about mental health and need to be open about it.

I've always been an advocate for mental health.

When I announced my focus on mental health as first lady of Georgia in 1971, none but five mental health advocates in the state wanted to be involved with the issue.

All governments could do more on mental health.

When you talk about our good and bad mental health stuff, it makes you realise you're not the only one feeling that way. It's OK to talk; it doesn't mean you're crazy or abnormal in any way. In fact, it's the opposite.

I care very deeply about mental health.

I think that mental illness is something that is so real.