Quotes About Stigma

The word 'slut' (in patois) was repeated over and over, until suddenly I felt as if I were drowning in a well but instead of the well being filled with water it was filled with the word 'slut,' and it was pouring in through my eyes, my ears, my nostrils, my mouth. As if to save myself, I turned to her and said, 'Well, like father like son, like mother like daughter.

E o que é a supervalorização da virgindade e a estigmação civil do adultério, como constam na lei brasileira, senão uma tentativa de garantir que a mulher só descubra o tamanho do pênis do marido quando não pode fazer mais nada a respeito?".

It is perfectly acceptable to have a physical problem in our culture, but people tend to shy away from anything that has to do with the emotions.

For you I'll always be Alison who slept around. That Australian girl who had an abortion. The human boomerang. Throw her away and she'll always come back for another weekend of cheap knock.

Because I was single, there was a chance I was a homosexual. Because I went to Syracuse, wherever that was, then I was probably a Communist. Or worse, a Liberal. Because I was from Memphis, I was a subversive intent on embarrassing Ford County.

SHE CALLED HERSELF AMBER, WHICH ALONG WITH ALEXIS happened to be the two most popular acquired names among strippers and whores in the French Quarter.

A person who commits suicide is not thinking rationally

Oh well. Part of being single was dealing with the misconceptions of others.

In this dirty minded world, you are either someone's wife or someone's whore.

Some readers and writers don't look like readers or writers.

For seven of the eight years he was president, Reagan would not say the AIDS word.

Sometimes, when we are labeled, when we are branded, our brand becomes our calling;

En este mundo de cochina mentalidad", piensa Jenny, "eres la esposa de alguien o la puta de alguien; o vas camino de convertirte en una de las dos cosas. Si no encajas en ninguna de las dos categorías, todo el mundo trata de hacerte creer que algo te pasa.

Quería trabajar y vivir sola. Eso me convirtió en sexualmente sospechosa. Después deseé tener un hijo sin que para ello tuviera que compartir mi cuerpo ni mi vida. También eso me convirtió en sexualmente sospechosa.

In this dirty-minded world," Jenny thinks, "you are either somebody's wife or somebody's whore—or fast on your way to becoming one or the other. If you don't fit either category, then everyone tries to make you think there is something wrong with you.

In this dirty-minded world, she thought, you are either somebody's wife or somebody's whore—or fast on your way to becoming one or the other. If you don't fit either category, then everyone tries to make you think there is something wrong with you.

Just give me the antibiotic," Esperanza said. "Of course I'll be infected again! I'm a prostitute.

The only problem that those people have anyway is that they don't like new cars and hair sprays. That's why they are put away. They make the other members of the society fearful. Every asylum in this nation is filled with poor souls who simply cannot stand lanolin, cellophane, plastic, television, and subdivisions.

It really is disgusting when a guy in a ball cap with a high school education is the one asking the tough questions.

Mental illness is not something you misunderstand in this era. Get educated because bias is no different than racism.

When you talk about emotional, chemical imbalances in people, there is no science behind that.

HIV AIDS is a disease with stigma. And we have learned with experience, not just with HIV AIDS but with other diseases, countries for many reasons are sometimes hesitant to admit they have a problem.

...my experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.

I've found nothing but support and generosity from older comics. I think comedians are a lot nicer than the stigma is, at least from my experience.