Quotes About Stigma

You've probably heard comments such as these your entire life: "Why can't she put her stuff away?" "Doesn't she care how it affects the rest of us?" "Why is she so lazy?" "What a pig!" And you have most likely internalized these painful, derogatory, negative remarks over the years until they have slaughtered your self-esteem, making you wonder What is wrong with me?

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In Anglo-Saxon countries the prostitutes look as if they purveyed, along with sin, the attendant pains of hell.

Being illegitimate is a technicality. It does not mean that there is anything wrong with you. Men use "bastard" as a curse. But to use the term thus is to show that they themselves are less than a proper human being.

I may be a slut, but I'm a slut who is growing a conscience.

You may not know it, but then again, maybe you do, but your sister is a prostitute." "And that makes a difference?" He looked at her in a speculative way, as if he wondered what she did for a living. "My sister is a person. She deserves the same attention you would give anybody.

For he was big, and I don't care what you say, for every inch a man grows over five foot five, his brain diminishes proportionately. All my life I have had a prejudice against overgrown louts.

One gets the impression that the mere words 'Socialism' and 'Communism' draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, 'Nature Cure' quack, pacifist and feminist in England.

A lot of people don't know how to navigate: they think, once you become a Christian, you essentially have to become Ned Flanders.

People would get up and leave so they would not have to sit anywhere near me.

Girls read a boy book, but boys don't necessarily want to read a girl book.

Honestly, I would not advise any actor necessarily, if he was really thinking of his career, to come out.

I don't think my name would necessarily draw people to come see the movie. It might hurt the movie, honestly.

Sharon Needles was based on two things: That she was beautiful and that she was stupid.

We all are scared. First of all, as a culture, we're constantly told that if you start to express yourself or express your needs, you're needy. You're too emotional. And they put all these negative connotations on it. That has started since we were kids, especially for men.

There will be a moment in life, whether you're forceful or not, where someone will label you something that is negative.

To the great majority of white Americans, the Negro problem has distinctly negative connotations. It suggests something difficult to settle and equally difficult to leave alone. It is embarrassing. It makes for moral uneasiness.

Most difficult is the labeling by other people that models are empty-headed bodies. I think if you look for negativity, you can find it anywhere.

Nobody wants to admit their kid is the one with lice. Not only because of the work involved in getting rid of them, but because lice are still associated with dirt, grime, neglect and often poverty.

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.

I don't consider myself a nerd.

I've gone from being bullied by jocks as a kid to being bullied by nerds as an adult.

Unless you are a lawyer or Fortune 500 CEO, carrying a briefcase is, well, nerdy.

I wasn't always the most fashionable, and I would come to school with cauliflower ear and ringworm. I got made fun of a lot. People called me 'Miss Man' and 'Guns,' and people directed a lot of karate jokes at me. I wish that I was at school now that MMA and martial arts is cool, but back when I was in school, people associated it with nerdy stuff.