Quotes About Stigma

Even though I never really had to pound the pavement as an actor, I always worked really hard. But, at the same time, I always felt like people thought that I didn't have to struggle even though I was struggling.

I had a really, really bad case of it. Everybody hears OCD and they think, 'Okay, you like to clean or be organized.' That's really not what it is, especially not for everybody. In my case, it was me being super self-conscious, to the point where it was debilitating.

Fans are going to give you crap no matter what sexual orientation you are.

Even from the age of about 6 years old, I was kind of made to feel different by other kids - you know, I was a quite pretty kid, and I got called 'girl' a lot, and 'woman' and all of that. And school is really not a place to be different.

We ought not to demonize a single gang member, and we ought not to romanticize a single gang.

You can have manic-depression without having an ounce of creativity.

Too often, when Muslim women speak out, some in our 'community' accuse us of 'making our men look bad' and of giving ammunition to right-wing Islamophobes.

You know mental illness is one of the biggest problems in our world.

AIDS is a judgment we have brought upon ourselves.

School was horrific for me, constantly an outcast for being a geek.

'Sex and the City' is about outsiders. Single girls as lepers, should have been married by now. It's the reason the whole thing took off.

Whoopie doo guys, yes, I've dated girls and I've dated boys - get over it.

I do think that maybe, sometimes, I get overlooked. I think it's maybe because I don't present the average image of an MMA fighter.

I think that - this is my personal opinion - but sometimes African American athletes are considered overly cocky.

I think overweight people are lazy and that they are bankrupting the country.

When you're overweight like I've been my whole life, you've been made fun of. And, uh, it's not good growing up.

The prejudice surrounding AIDS exacts a social death which precedes the actual physical one.

Homosexuals are thus drawn to certain grimy urban neighborhoods,

The idea that all the people locked up in mental hospitals are sane while all the people walking about are mad is merely a literary cliche, put about by people who should be locked up. I assure you there is not much in it. Taken as a whole, the sane are out there the sick are in here. For example you are in here because you have delusions that sane people are put in mental hospitals.

Have you ever used Diet Shampoo before? It's for people with Fat Heads.

I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about.

When people make up their minds about you, they only see you one way, which is the easy way for them.

Beyond meeting simple immediate needs, the Navajo Way placed little worth on property. In fact, being richer than one's clansmen carried with it a social stigma. It was unnatural, and therefore suspicious.

Navajos did not kill with cold-blooded premeditation. Nor did they kill for profit. To do so violated the scale of values of The People. Beyond meeting simple immediate needs, the Navajo Way placed little worth on property. In fact, being richer than one's clansmen carried with it a social stigma. It was unnatural, and therefore suspicious.