Quotes About Stigma

Our society's strong emphasis on dieting and self-image can sometimes lead to eating disorders. We know that more than 5 million Americans suffer from eating disorders, most of them young women.

More men than women like 'Strangers With Candy'. Pretty girls don't like the show. They don't like to see an ugly lady.

It's a very difficult thing for people to accept, seeing women act out anger on the screen. We're more accustomed to seeing men expressing rage and women crying.

The fact that I haven't been married might qualify me as belonging in the nutty category to a lot of women.

If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative.

Surely going to bed with a man before marriage was the most courageous act of my life.

It's hard for women at my age in Hollywood, but I'm not discouraged.

Women in leadership cannot cry without raising a storm of commentary.

The fact that 'attention seeking' is still considered a slur says much about the role of women in public life, on every scale.

I'm not angry. And I don't like the thing of the 'angry black woman,' either.

Women are often only in the media to be victimised or objectified

Women are terrified of their sexuality because they've got so much of it, and we live in a society that says they don't.

Many religions over the years have suggested that when a woman is menstruating, she should be avoided and not touched.

In the past quarter century, we exposed biases against other races and called it racism, and we exposed biases against women and called it sexism. Biases against men we call humor.

Beautiful princesses and beautiful, strong queens are brainwashed into thinking ho's and B****'s are virtuous titles.

I would hate to have gone through life as a beautiful woman because they all too often get discounted.

Real feminism is spinsterhood. It's time America admitted that old maids give all women a good name.

It must be hard to be a female in a David Mackenzie movie. I feel like women in his films are portrayed a certain way - like broken people.

Often, women who lose babies are blamed for the loss of those children and are ostracised.

When you're an older woman [in a movie] you tend to be in - how did you put it? You're the brunt of the joke.

I thought that's what happened to women: You live alone when you're old.

I think people resist feminism because they're scared. I think for women, they're scared of being picked on or of being called out.

I think the whole concept that women aren't funny is dead. It's over; it's done.

I think the big news there - most post-menopausal women I know are not celibate.