Quotes About Stigma

If the Internet has given us anything, it's some idea of how much psychosis goes undiagnosed.

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor, which is one very strong argument in favour of matrimony.

It's hard for women at my age in Hollywood, but I'm not discouraged.

Fat is not a moral problem. It's an oral problem.

Just because I'm not a good reader doesn't mean I'm stupid.

The image of the "self-destructive artist" is a culturally implanted kill switch. Ignore it. Imagination is a weapon; you have been indoctrinated with these images so that if you discover the weapon, you will use it on yourself and save them the trouble.

They talk of my drinking but never my thirst. - Scottish proverb

I am a professional transvestite, so I can run about in heels and not fall over. Cause if a woman falls over wearing heels, that's embarrassing. But if a bloke falls over wearing heels, you have to kill yourself. It's the end of your life.

Then I caught myself foolishly imagining that gays might someday constitute a community rather than a diagnosis.

Frankenstein is actually an equivalent of how a gay person feels growing up.

The American Psychiatric Association classified homosexuality as a mental illness until 1973 and remnants of that categorization remain in the contemporary diagnosis of 'gender identity disorder', particularly when applied to children.

Here are some key words to go along with shame: Inferior Alienated Embarrassed Minority Ridiculed Weak Powerless Failure Different Insulted Rejected Inadequate Humiliated Ignored Loser

And, when some such suffering beast is seen, on his way to solitude, we humans prove our humanity by raising the idiotic bellow of "Mad dog!" and by chasing and torturing the victim. All this, despite proof that not one sick dog in a thousand, thus assailed, has any disease which is even remotely akin to rabies.

I consider exercise vulgar. It makes people smell.

It is not easy to wash off the shame when it has already been glued to a person.

In a nation that likes to see itself as forgiving, we are mulishly unforgiving of those who have committed a felony...

Rough sleepers have a life expectancy of forty-two years. They are thirty-five times more likely to commit suicide than the rest of the population. In

If you want a man who's commited, go look in a mental hospital.

Being single isn't a terminal disease." "Try telling that to my mother.

Exista de cand lumea o categorie de oropsitori ai vietii, fanatici care interzic fericirea, osandesc placerea, detesta rasul si persecuta inteligenta. Ei obtin întotdeauna stima imbecililor si izbutesc recurent sa instaleze o forma sau alta de teroare.

She was so steeped in wickedness that she promulgated laws permitting others to act as she herself did, in order to annul the stigma that would otherwise have been attached to her.

In Washington, there's always an effort to label people.

People with HIV are still stigmatized. The infection rates are going up. People are dying. The political response is appalling. The sadness of it, the waste.

I am technically not a midget. I'm a dwarf, or a little person, but I consider myself a midget. I just don't care enough to, I'm not going to waste anger on the word midget.