Quotes About Stigma

As far as she could see, the nuns must be full of impure thoughts or else they wouldn't be so sure everyone else had them.

Ben, schizophrenia alone disables more people for a longer time than cancer. Hundreds of thousands of people are confined to hospitals. We can't turn our backs on them or burn them as witches because of a chemical imbalance in the brain." He

It's an unfortunate by-product of a patriarchal society that women are deemed sluttish or cheap for engaging in sex for pleasure while men are considered vital. Virginity shouldn't be a prize to be won, or withheld. The hymen has no rewarding properties, grants no powers. Women should—no, must—be allowed to pursue their own sexual gratification, whether or not procreation is the goal or the relationship a monogamous one, just as a man is free to do so.

At some point, if you live long enough, it's probably impossible to avoid seeming crazy.

Within any generation there are always two distinct classes: a handful who accept an embody the assigned caricature, and many more others who are caricatured against their will, simply because they happen to be born in a particular year. It was no different for generation x. The only dissimilarity is that it bothered them less.

Suicide is very contagious.

The problem is, if you never weep in public... well, the public assumes you never weep.

Sui­cide is very con­ta­gious.

Algunos actos son demasiado bajos hasta para tener nombre. Demasiado bajos para hablar de ellos.

He was a nice guy, Jimmy, but rich or not he was dumb as a bag of retards, and smoking all that weed didn't help.

It's good to realize that. Not everybody is meant to be a mother or a father, and the more of those assholes figure that out, the better. But for some reason, our biological urge to reproduce is given this gross social weight. Oh, are you pregnant? When are you going to have a baby? Are you? Will you? Won't you? What's wrong with you? It's like if you're not a breeder, you're a nobody.

but we have all been branded, even if you can't see it - inside, if not without.

Sitcom white folk, movie-of-the-week white folk were our coon show.

It is folly to buy into the argument that prostitution empowers women. If anything, it imprisons them, and legalization will exploit even more women and girls.

I'd much prefer to speak of the modern books that I hate at first sight: the earnest case histories of minority groups, the sorrows of homosexuals, the anti-American Sovietnam sermon, the picaresque yarn larded with juvenile obscenities.

Oh, that's a tiresome subject! Heterosexual comparison! Why do all faggots dredge that one up? Straights don't compare themselves to us! We're all the same anyway. We've just got an added dose of the clap.

I'm frightened nobody important is going to give a damn because it seems to be happening mostly to gay men.

FELIX: Whoever thought you'd die from having sex?

simply another child or adult. As children, we are not shy about telling our parents and those close to us about these experiences. Children are generally quite open, and don't fear being made fun of by their peers. Then, as we start school and get older, we find out people are not so open to hearing about psychic experiences. So we start to shut down and not talk openly about the experiences, for fear of being laughed at or labeled.

I think the way we talk about cancer has really evolved. I remember the way my grandmother used to talk about it, like a death sentence, no-one would even mention the word.

It's amazing how people can take just one small part of a person and draw massive conclusions.

Jesus. Who does he think he is? He's always out partying and drinking with his friends. I do it once and all of a sudden I'm a candidate for AA.

You are definitely not a slut," Jasmine says, putting her arms around her. "Having sex with a guy you like does not make you a slut. Now if you start having sex with every guy you like, then we'll reclassify you according to level of skankiness.

What a filthy mind you have. Can't imagine why you're single with a brain as dirty as the one you've got.