Quotes About Stigma

In order to progress, modern society should be treating ruined entrepreneurs in the same way we honor dead soldiers, perhaps not with as much honor, but using exactly the same logic (the entrepreneur is still alive, though perhaps morally broken and socially stigmatized

perhaps morally broken and socially stigmatized

American culture encourages the process of failure, unlike the cultures of Europe and Asia where failure is met with stigma and embarrassment.

It [the scarlet letter] had the effect of a spell, taking her out of the ordinary relations with humanity, and enclosing her in a sphere by herself.

The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread.

Individuals in private life, meanwhile, had quite forgiven Hester Prynne for her frailty; nay, more, they had begun to look upon the scarlet letter as the token, not of that one sin for which she had borne so long and dreary a penance, but of her many good deeds since.

Her breast, with its badge of shame, was but the softer pillow for the head that needed one.

But it was a remarkable attribute of this garb, and indeed, of the child's whole appearance, that it irresistibly and inevitably reminded the beholder of the token which Hester Prynne was doomed to wear upon her bosom. It was the scarlet letter in another form: the scarlet letter endowed with life!

the scarlet letter ceased to be a stigma which attracted the world's scorn and bitterness, and became a type of something to be sorrowed over, and looked upon with awe, yet with reverence too.

The scarlet letter had not done its office.

I know exactly what he means. I had overheard Poirot talking to my parents. He was using words like psychosis and schizophrenic. Words that people feel they have to whisper, or not repeat at all. The Mental-Illness-That-Must-Not-Be-Named.

Sometimes I think it would be easier to die than to face that, because "what could have been" is much more highly regarded than "what should have been." Dead kids are put on pedestals, but mentally ill kids get hidden under the rug.

Martwe dzieci stawia siÄ™ na piedestale, a te chore psychicznie zamiata pod dywan

It was Hayden who actually came up with the therm Whollies because Unwind and AWOL were negative labels put on them by the world.

Whores are natural

Lawyers, doctors, plumbers, they all made the money. writers? writers starved. writers suicided. writers went mad.

If there's anything worse than a whore it's a bore.

Although looked down upon, the idiots seemed to have the more peaceful lives: nothing was expected of them.

Yeah? Well, if there's anything worse than a whore it's a bore.

What's the sin in being poor?

every man is afraid of being queer. I get a little tired of it. maybe we should all become queers and relax.

Estaba siempre muy alegre o muy deprimida. Para ella no había término medio. Algunos decían que estaba loca. Lo decían los tontos. Los tontos no podían entenderla.

Public hates what they call a quitter

An economist is someone who is good with numbers but does not have the personality to be an accountant." The tarnished image of