Quotes About Stigma

For there are two possible reactions to social ostracism - either a man emerges determined to be better, purer, and kindlier or he goes bad, challenges the world and does even worse things. The last is by far the commonest reaction to stigma.

A man with a beard was always a little suspect anyway.

They drew into themselves and no one could foresee how they would come out of the cloud. For there are two possible reactions to social ostracism— either a man emerges determined to be better, purer, and kindlier or he goes bad, challenges the world and does even worse things. This last is by far the commonest reaction to stigma.

For there are two possible reactions to social ostracism— either a man emerges determined to be better, purer, and kindlier or he goes bad, challenges the world and does even worse things. This last is by far the commonest reaction to stigma.

To his mind, a healthy woman was a broke woman. A dame with money was a kind of a half-assed man.

their mother is a whore.

He looked at me like I was stupid. Why do people always look at me like that?

men paid one group of women to provide the services that their respectable counterparts would not.

They stick you with those names, those labels -- 'rebel' or whatever; whatever they like to use. Because they need a label; they need a name. They need something to put the price tag on the back of.

If the race is to be freed from its crippling burden of good and evil it must be psychiatrists who take the original responsibility

How we treat our invalids - our mad, our physically or mentally compromised family members - does tell you something about who we are politically, historically, culturally.

It runs in the family. And don't expect me to be ashamed. Yankees lock away loony relatives, but down here, we prop 'em up on parade floats and march 'em through the middle of town.

I think our family is like a lot of families. We had no vocabulary for mental illness

it is not only unfair but disgustingly cruel that the mother is always held responsible for the illegitimate child, while the father goes scot-free.

I believe that there is a great fear in our generation of being labeled as priggish.

Part of what Special Olympics is trying to do is break down stereotypes that still exist for people. There is still a lot of fear.

We know that mental illness is not something that happens to other people. It touches us all. Why then is mental illness met with so much misunderstanding and fear?

Fear is isolating for those that fear. And I have come to believe that fear is a cruelty to those who are feared.

The fear of murder has grown so enormous in the United States that it leaves a taint, like the mark of Cain, on everyone murder touches.

They think you're crazy, and sad. They think you're weird, and mad. They call you stupid, and worthless, tell you that you're not worth it. But in someone's eyes, you are perfect.

anything with a whiff of redneck or white trash upsets me so much that I hope never to be close to any of its components.

Judy shook her head when she saw me the next day, dressed in the same clothes I had worn to work the day before. "We used to call that the walk of shame," she said.

Many people hear voices when no one is there. Some of them are called mad and are shut up in rooms where they stare at the walls all day. Others are called writers and they do pretty much the same thing.

It's very hard for a woman in comedy. It's hard for women to be bold and not care what anyone, particularly men, think. Maybe that is why so many women comics are lesbians.