Quotes About Stigma

Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.

You sound like you're mentally deficient. And possibly Chinese.

Some disabled people spend a significant amount of their energy on trying to come across as abled or as not that disabled.

Not everyone who has killed themselves because they were HIV positive would have been killed by AIDS.

Being HIV positive doesn't necessarily mean that you are going to die before each and every person who is HIV negative.

Hispanics still have the highest rate amongst teens with babies so at least the future housekeeping is secure.

My goal is to see that mental illness is treated like cancer.

Alcoholism is a disease, but it's the only one you can get yelled at for having. Goddamn it Otto, you are an alcoholic. Goddamn it Otto, you have Lupis... one of those two doesn't sound right.

It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.

There are only three ages for women in Hollywood -- Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

When I was young I was called a rugged individualist. When I was in my fifties I was considered eccentric. Here I am doing and saying the same things I did then and I'm labeled senile.

Women are good for 70 things, sandwiches and 69.

Men are fast to call lady's whore but must faster to put their manhood in one.

Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll; women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant.

It is a silly question to ask a prostitute why she does it.. These are the highest-paid professional women in America.

There's this idea that if you take your clothes off, somehow you must have loose morals. There's still a negative attitude in our society towards women who use a strength that's inherent - their femininity - in any way that might be considered seductive.

One would suppose in reading them that women possess but one class of physical organs, and that these are always diseased.

No doubt exists that all women are crazy; it's only a question of degree.

Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.

A world without prejudice, stigma, and discrimination against those who have or are thought to have mental illness would be a better one for everyone. What so-called normal people are doing when they define disease like manic depression or schizophrenia is reassuring themselves that they don't have a thought disorder or an affective disorder, that their thoughts and feelings make perfect sense.

What was a really private and nice relationship was judged and made to be something ugly.

Even today I meet people who think of me automatically as a tough, insensitive, coarse guy named Stanley Kowalski.

The only difference between who is a witch and who is not is one man's mouth,' say the cook.

I have always found it puzzling that men believe it perfectly acceptable to take their pleasure where they may without guilt or recriminations, but when women do the same, they are branded whores and trulls.