Quotes About Stigma

This is where feminism had gotten her: locked in the back of a sticky squad car with the skirt on her tennis dress riding up her thighs.

These were the qualities that painted young me as smart and ambitious and young woman as trouble.

I hate rape cases. You don't throw a murder case to a jury and they ask, 'Well, was the guy really murdered or is he lying because he wants the attention? And what was he doing in that part of town? And why was he drinking? And what about all those murderers he dated before?

Most pirates had one eye, one leg and a hook for a hand. I don't know why people feared them. If they were around today they'd be registered disabled and would be entitled to so many benefits they wouldn't have to mess about looking for treasure chests.

If I was in charge of the dictionary I would have a right clear-out of words. Words like 'necrophilia' I'd get rid of. If someone has that (attraction to dead bodies), I'd make them say, 'I fancy dead bodies'. Then, at least when they tell people, they might realise how mental it sounds rather than it being hidden in a posh word. And then they'll stop having the problem. The fact that it has its own word makes it seem more acceptable.

Could you be an old maid if you had worn the scarlet letter?

Every man bears something within him that, if it were publicly announced, would excite feelings of aversion.

Cheerless poverty has no harder trial than this, that it makes men the subject of ridicule. [Lat., Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se Quam quod ridiculos homines facit.]

Most men have an insecurity of some sort. But we're brought up to believe that we can't show them.

I was told that when you hit forty men stop looking at you. It's true, until you slip on a mini-skirt.

Regardless of how me or this man right here or anybody else in this business get, when we walk on an airplane in first-class looking like this, we're gonna get searched.

With In the Company of Men, the misogynist label stuck early and firmly. In the end, it probably did hurt the film a bit, because getting women into the theaters was difficult.

There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink

Not all people are ready to accept psychiatry as a normal branch of medicine. The general impression, as I believe, is that a man who needs a psychiatrist must be crazy.

I started photographing men in 1964. Fourteen years later I got a Guggenheim, even so no one would publish the male nudes.

The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.

When a woman weeps, it is a man's shame.

Men walk this tightrope where any sign of weakness illicits shame, and so they're afraid to make themselves vulnerable for fear of looking weak.

Effeminate men have suffered a bad press the world over.

For men to be virgins, we think it's negative. We think that there's something wrong with them.

Whenever a big white man picks up a banjo, my cheeks tighten.

What ever happened to freak shows? Back in the twenties when elephant man was born at least he had a job waiting for him.

If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.

Men are men and women are women, but the men are dumber than the women, usually.