Quotes About Stigma

Most people, almost everyone knows of a teen mom. Teen pregnancy rates are growing, and we need to bring awareness to that.

I had said to some pastor that I was having thoughts, and the church turned on me. They went to my mom and said, So sorry about your son.

I always give homeless people money, and my friends yell at me, 'He's only going to buy more alcohol and cigarettes.' And I'm thinking, 'Oh, like I wasn't?'

They explained to me that the bank cannot lend money to poor people because these people are not creditworthy.

They wouldn't play my records on American radio because I had spiky hair. They said, 'Punk rock doesn't sell advertising, it won't make any money.'

There's not a long career span because you can't really make money doing drag for very long the way the system was set up for so many years.

Granted, not all uneducated women are prostitutes, and, not all prostitutes are uneducated. However, where building a family is employment, an uneducated woman's womb is her diploma.

I was labeled a troublemaker, my mom an unfit mother, and I was not welcome anywhere.

I am not a pregnant working mother wronged.

We should be the natural home for young mothers. But we're not. Because too often we sound like people who think the only good mother is a married mother.

This weird pressure that mothers are put under, like this idea that if you can't breastfeed, you're not doing something properly, or if you choose not to.

I remember mother saying : Inventors are like poets, a trashy lot

When I'd tell people I like country music they'd get this look on their faces. People were kind of ashamed of country.

What I know is my music gets blamed for school shootings.

It's sad that people listen to music and decide how the singer should look.

People seem to think that folk music is people with acoustic guitars. Or punk music is people with mohawks, leather jackets.

The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San Jose. Is it still southern?

Brand a man as a thief and no one will ever hire him for honest labor - he will be a hardened robber within weeks. The brand does not reveal a person's nature, it shapes it.

People think that because of my nature and the tone of my voice that I'm stupid, and that's hard.

I was ridiculed in public school for being smart. A teacher's pet.

The old philosophy was that parents, especially mothers, caused their kids to become schizophrenic. Now we see that when a kid is this crazy, he'll make the family begin to seem crazy.

Mental –ill health is delusion.

Women are not supposed to have uteruses, especially in poems.

Never judge a country by its politicians.