Quotes About Stigma

But here's what you have to remember: There are no homosexuals in Ireland. You might have got it into your head that you are one but you're just wrong, it's as simple as that. You're wrong.

Without any doubt, criminals feel like social outcasts and bear enormous toxic shame.

many adults see play as idleness, and idleness as the proverbial "devil's workshop.

A man who gets divorced is not forever going to be talked about for it. There are very different standards that we have for women than we have for men.

Girls only enjoy 3 weeks of a month. Cause there will always be that one week, when well all suffer from having a period. We cant run, we cant eat well, were having mood swings. We have to change pads every 5 hours and sh....

Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.

Single women have a dreadful propensity to being poor

Periods are ridiculous girls shouldnt be punished for not getting pregnant.

We are a society that treats people with disabilities with condescension and pity, not dignity and respect.

Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me.

I was thought to be retarded as a child, and all the evidence indicates that I was.

I'm nothing but a drunkard. Why do people expect me to be anything else?

The minute you're laughing, some people will say you're laughing at people.

Although I can be a leading man, you wouldn't look at me and go, 'He's a leading man.'

When I lost weight due to only eating once a day, people said how lean and healthy I looked.

Is now the time to legalize prostitution?

I always thought 'plus-size' wasn't a term that was negative - it wasn't something that I felt was something that was making me any different or making me feel like I was lesser than - and I found a community through it.

Loads of people thought we were gay.

Many people feel that if they're lonely, that means that they're not likable or that they're broken in some way.

People tend to assume that I come from a long line of castle-dwelling gentry and am made of money.

Unfortunately, we are part of an industry where if a man and woman have worked together for such a long period of time, they have to be linked up.

So often we have this image of what drug addiction looks like, and it's not fun. Our loved ones who go down that path are in pain.

I know that I don't have the image of a lover boy.

People never know what to do with women who write, especially about lust, in a way that isn't sanitised and held back.