Quotes About Stigma

Am I gay, am I straight? No, I'm just slutty. So, where's my parade? What about slut pride.

I had the additional disadvantage of being unable to approve my own conduct; being a child of the age, I knew how wrong and how misguided it was. I walked around with a scarlet letter embroidered upon my bosom, visible enough in the end, but the A stood for Abstinence, not for Adultery.

For every age there is a popular idea about what madness is, what causes it, and how a mad person should look and behave; and it is usually these popular ideas, rather than those of medical professionals, that turn up in songs and stories and plays and books.

For every age there is a popular idea about what madness is, what causes it, and how a mad person should look and behave; and it's usually these popular ideas, rather than those of medical professionals, that turn up in songs and stories and plays and books.

That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned!

When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It's a slur on the divine in our nature.

We soon got the idea that 'Italian' meant something inferior, and a barrier was erected between children of Italian origin and their parents. This was the accepted process of Americanization," Covello reflected in his memoir The Heart Is the Teacher. "We were becoming Americans by learning how to be ashamed of our parents.

Whoever seeks to live by brain and pen alone is, at the beginning of such a career, treated as a sort of social pariah.

It comes down to this. Some one must wash the dishes. Now, would you expect man, man made in the image of God, to roll up his sleeves and wash the dishes? Why, it would be blasphemy. I know that I am but a rib and so I wash the dishes.

Those that have lost their lives to suicide were good people, who were in deep, deep pain. Keep speaking about mental illness and keep it out of the darkness.

People tend to associate anyone who looks and behaves differently with illegal or immoral activity.

If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.

It's okay to be fat. So you're fat. Just be fat and shut up about it.

Every man treats himself as society treats the criminal.

I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing the other patients.

In Hollywood if you don't have a shrink, people think you're crazy.

It may be true that artists adopt a flamboyant appearance, but it's also true that people who look funny get stuck with the arts.

A slut is like the first piece of bread in a loaf, everyone touches it, but nobody wants it.

It is bad enough that people are dying of AIDS, but no one should die of ignorance.

There are more men than women in mental hospitals...which just goes to show who's driving whom crazy.

Boy: Why can't tampons talk? Girl: Because they're stuck up bi...es.

Borrow your wife's pink slippers just to go check the mail and everybody in the whole damn community will stop by to chat. True story. FML.

They speak of my drinking, but never think of my thirst.

We are all born sexual creatures,thank God, but it's a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift.