Quotes About Stigma

Did not our elders tell us that as soon as we shake hands with a leper he will want an embrace?

MEN SELDOM rub elbows with girls who wear dildoes

Now, the separation between depression and suicide is more crevasse than chasm.

When this war was over, he and his family--all Germans--were going to have to live with the black mark of this (whatever this was) for a long, long time.

For years we were called niggers to indicate we had no value or worth and that anything could be done to us," Ray said. "Then the word 'nigger' became politically incorrect. So they began calling us criminals. When you say a person is a criminal it means that what happens to them does not matter. It means he or she is a nigger. It means they deserve what they get.

I don't know why people think I'm a Goth - that's a misconception.

I've seen schizophrenics who are so hopeless, you couldn't cheer them, and their lives are miserable and they end up as suicides. That's not right.

Most car advertising assumes that people have IQs that are missing a digit.

I was never bullied as a kid, and I didn't know that I was going to be bullied by adults because I park in handicapped. And I get it - I'm young and athletic - but I'm also missing legs.

Unfortunately, in our country, crying is mistaken for good acting.

People misunderstand who I truly am. Truly who I am. If I go somewhere, people just think I'm a party boy 24/7.

If one is rich and one's a woman, one can be quite misunderstood.

Football players are misunderstood. They aren't the dumb jocks people think they are.

When I came out, initially, I faced some mocking. For the first 10-15 days, sometimes when I was out in public, people would shout things like 'lesbian.'

When I went back to modeling, nobody knew how to deal with a 46-year-old model!

With modelling, there's nothing to work on other than losing weight. I definitely had an eating disorder.

The worst fear you can have coming from a modelling background is that you're going to be a model-turned- actress - a mattress, that's what I call them, ironically, I hope.

People who were gay were pitied and ridiculed by my parents - they had no modern sense of people being allowed to be who they were.

Employers don't want to hire single moms with kids, because if the kid's sick then they can't work, and it goes on and on and on. It's really incredibly difficult to find a job in that situation.

When I was growing up, we didn't have 'Will & Grace.' The one gay character was Monroe from 'Too Close For Comfort' - and he wasn't even gay! At least they didn't say he was. Same with Mr. Furley from 'Three's Company.' You know, these were the characters that people would always make fun of.

The more people talk about eating disorders, the more people get the real story about what they're like.

The more people come out, the less it will be an issue.

Most people don't go around talking about their miscarriages. It's not really something you shout about. What's more, people often feel embarrassed or even guilty about them.

I think more people should be open to talking about mental health issues. Instead of holding in so much.