Quotes About Stigma

It's unfortunate how people assume so much about your life based on the work you do.

There are proven health benefits for both babies and mothers who breastfeed, and it's unfortunate that it still carries an unfair stigma in our society.

In high school, from age 15 to 18, I was saddled with the unfortunate nickname of 'Junk,' which doesn't do a lot for one's self-esteem.

There is an unfortunate side effect of being a person of few words: Sometimes people will assume you are less intelligent than you are.

Unfortunately, with men's health, we don't talk about it enough, and prostate cancer gets lost in the conversation.

Unfortunately, in television today there are very few African-American characters who are human beings. They are typically two-dimensional stereotypes, cookie-cutter types.

Mental illness, unfortunately, is an invisible disease: it's not seen or heard. For whatever reason, because of that, society has decided that if we can't see it, maybe it doesn't exist, so they want to just sweep it under the carpet or say, 'Snap out of it,' or that you're looking for attention.

I think a lot of women look at prostitutes like they're scabs crossing an union picket line, where they go: You can't just go out and sell it for what it's worth, we're holding out for so much more!

I think, like many women, I was judgmental toward women as they aged.

Toxic masculinity hurts men, but there's a big difference between women dealing with the constant threat of being raped, beaten, and killed by the men in their lives, and men not being able to cry.

Attacking me and women who use contraception by calling us prostitutes and worse cannot silence us.

Consider a very natural process, menstruation, and how the association has been created in which this process is dirty, degrading.

As an unmarried woman, I was thought to be a danger.

It is less difficult for a woman to obtain celebrity by her genius than to be forgiven for it.

Once they call you a Latin Lover, you're in real trouble. Women expect an Oscar performance in bed.

People often ask why comedy is harder for women, and the reason is because a tampon will sometimes fall out when you're on stage. Blokes don't have that worry.

People have preconceptions about women of a certain age.

Maybe studios don't want to see women acting in a way that isn't womanly. Maybe people don't.

Both depression and anxiety disorders, for example, are repeatedly described in the media as 'chemical imbalances in the brain,' as if spontaneous neural events with no relation to anything outside a person's brain cause depression and anxiety.

Everyone gets the impression that bodybuilders are narcissistic, and we look at ourselves in mirrors all the time. But that side of the sport doesn't appeal to me.

We grew up in an era where there was a lot of fear of HIV. Everybody worried about it and everybody took precautions, and everybody knew that it was a thing that was out there. As it slowed down, it left the spotlight, people forgot.

In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers.

No, people don't heckle me. I think it's because there's this big, black guy on stage and it's slightly daunting.

Many of my single mom friends and I had a fear of appearing poor, especially when we bought groceries with food stamps, or used WIC checks for milk.