Quotes About Stigma

I'm afraid Helen can't go anywhere at the moment. She's been in bed all day, ill with a nervous condition." His eyes changed, some unfathomable emotion spangling the dark depths. "A nervous condition," he repeated, his voice iced with scorn. "That seems a common complaint among aristocratic ladies. Someday I'd like to know what makes you all so nervous.

Be she alewife, fishmonger, washerwoman, or whore; the woman who fucks my whole cock shall I take to church's door.

She changed the general perception that orphans were damaged goods.

It was a source of shame for my family that I was in rock and roll, which is so blue-collar. It just isn't done. And I felt it, too.

It's the most annoying question and they just can't help asking you. You'll be asked it at family gatherings, weddings, and on first dates. And you'll ask yourself far too often. It's the question that has no good answer. It's the question that when people stop asking it, you'll feel even worse. - WHY ARE YOU SINGLE?

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Unfortunately, we are still in an age where individuals may be discriminated against because of health conditions.

Some people talk to themselves, and some people write, and somehow society has decided that one gets committed and one gets a paycheck.

Matthew figures it must be pretty horrible to need therapy if it makes people so sad.

Ongeacht hoe openhartig we als samenleving zijn over zaken die we vroeger angstvallig verzwegen, het stigma op onze emotionele problemen en zielenroerselen blijft immens. ... Maar waarvoor zijn wij dan zo bang? Het is niet alsof we een kijkje nemen in die duistere krochten, het licht aandoen en een stel kakkerlakken aantreffen. Vuurvliegjes houden ook van de duisternis. Er is schoonheid op die plekken.

No matter how open we as a society are about formerly private matters, the stigma around our emotional struggles remains formidable. We'll talk with almost anyone about our physical health (can anyone imagine spouses hiding their reflux medication from each other?), even our sex lives, but bring up anxiety or depression or an intractable sense of grief, and the expression on the face looking back at you will probably read, Get me out of this conversation, pronto.

in certain regions of Italy, women of ill-repute or evil looks are forbidden to enter cheese factories.

But the problem is, people tend to assign you the role of the person you are at your worst, you know?

And in the same vein," she said, "why does the word 'pussy' equate to weakness, when even the slightest flick to a guy's 'balls of steel' sends him to his knees—but vaginas can push out an entire human being?

It's not my fault all women like motorcycles, Murph. They're basically huge vibrators. With wheels. - Harry Dresden

My definition of LUNATIC ASYLUM: A place where lunatics are created.

Know something?" Brandon said. "I think the most interesting people I'll meet these days will be criminals—or people about to become criminals.

About the cathouse: the notion that an accepted element in the social order is a whorehouse goes hand in hand with the woman on a pedestal.

It's like the psychiatrists themselves are buying into that stupid belief that therapy is something to hide.

The problem was , you never heard anyone say,wow, check out the brain on that babe.

You just don't go out when you're over 55 years of age, have a colossal failure, and expect to find work in your field again.

I find that with some girls, the words 'work' and 'education' have gotten a bad rap.

There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.

When we label anyone 'bad', we will have more trouble dealing with him than if we could have settled for a lesser label.