Quotes About Stigma

There's no shame in speaking about mental illness. It's a very common problem in today's society, no matter if you're playing sports or working in another field. It's something that needs to be spoken about a lot more.

I'm not a vitiligo spokesperson just because I have vitiligo.

To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.

Prostitutes don't sell their bodies, they rent their bodies. Housewives sell their bodies when they get married.

To be unwed and female was to succumb to an illness with only one known cure: marriage.

If a woman abandoned by her husband, or a widow, of her own accord contracts a second marriage and bears ,a son , he is called the son of a re married woman .

my uncle ... had the misfortune to be ever touched in his brain, and, as a convincing proof, married his maid, at an age when he and she both had more occasion for a nurse than a parson.

Stigma against mental illness is a scourge with many faces, and the medical community wears a number of those faces.

Depression is a treatable medical illness like cancer and heart disease.

Today, hundreds of thousands of AIDS patients are under medical treatment, which is a great advancement. But it makes some people reckless.

Both childbirth and abortion are medical procedures but neither is an illness, and sometimes they're both treated as such.

The entire race is usually judged by the actions of one man or woman

I personally don't think ginger men have a habit of being attractive. We have to make ourselves seem attractive by doing stuff.

The greater a man's talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.

A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.

Because I'm a young black man driving a really nice, expensive car, I sometimes get harassed when I'm rolling through a ghetto neighborhood.

You have created a society in which it is very not okay to want to die—very not okay to be very okay with death.

Sometimes we call those girls sluts. Do you think she had a boyfriend when she was eight?

You have a chemical imbalance, that is all. If you were a diabetic, would you be ashamed

If a woman has been married three years or more, you come to learn that she's usually easier to sleep with than a single woman.

This guy I know went into a sex shop and asked the proprietor for a blow-up sex doll." "Is this a joke?" "So the proprietor asks, 'You want a Christian doll, a Jewish doll, or a Muslim doll?' And the guy says, 'What difference does it make?' And the proprietor says, 'Well, the Muslim dolls blow themselves up.

When you say 'comic book' in America, people think of Mickey Mouse, and Archie. It has a connotation of juvenile.

I just played one of the bad guys in Hercules 3D, and I had cornrows. People moved away from me in elevators, that's for sure. I wore them for about three months. After a while, they get a little gnarly, and you have to redo them.

In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the US, I'm a bum.