Quotes About Stigma

Something is wrong here: sex has been with us since the human race began its existence, yet I would estimate that 90 percent of human beings still suffer enormous inhibitions in this area.

They think there are only two kinds of young women in China: good girls or prostitutes.

But on one occasion he was lost for words. 'If it's all as bad as you describe,' asked an inconspicuous young man at the end of one of the lectures, 'then why did you choose to become a Gypsy?' His image of Gypsies had marked them as a mere lifestyle, a fashion, a brand.

lamented, "Too often sissy fellows have paraded themselves as representatives of Christianity's crowning work and characterization

A lot of people here some South in your mouth, and they automatically think you're dumb. They think if you talk funny, you are funny. – Lloyd Hand

she also tended to see strangers not as individuals but as representatives of types. It was as though people did not walk around in the world as themselves, but as examples of kinds of people, the majority of whom they had never met.

Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to it.

If Nic were not ill he would not lie. If Nic were not ill he would not steal. If Nic were not ill he would not terrorize his family. He would not forsake his friends, his mother, Karen, Jasper, and Daisy, and he would not forsake me. He would not. He has a disease, but addiction is the most baffling of all diseases, unique in the blame, shame, and humiliation that accompany it.

abuse of drugs was not "a mysterious and inexplicable natural catastrophe, but a form

Doing so, however, reinforces a problematic "we" that discounts those with disabilities by suggesting all of us occupy failed embodiments in some way without an ability to attend to crip/queer materiality's nuances of experience.

It's nothing to be ashamed of—often the greatest difficulty faced by people suffering from mental illness is society's inexcusable ignorance of the subject.

What do you think it's like, Father?" "What what's like?" "Being crazy. Mentally ill." "Well, they never know they're ill, do they? You can't diagnose yourself with the same organ that has the disease, just like you can't see your own eyeball. So, I suppose you just feel normal and the rest of the world seems to go crazy around you.

I bet his real name is Chad, he looks like one.

I'm a woman. Guilt is our birthright.

I have traveled alone. I am unmarried, I live without a chaperone, and I work for a living. These are not the actions of a lady,

Are you getting your period?" She narrows her eyes. No! God. I hate that. I hate when every negative act is blamed on your period." Sometimes bitchiness is just bitchiness, happily unattached to anything hormonal. It should get full credit.

If all the people who were called "crazy" started acting "normal", we'd probably still be living in caves.

Modern Americans behave as if intelligence were some sort of hideous deformity.

Crazy people are considered mad by the rest of the society only because their intelligence isn't understood.

I asked many friends if Australian anti-intellectualism was still a living force and they all told me it was. If you are above average intelligence, hide this embarrassing fact.

When the Okies left Oklahoma and moved to California, they raised the average intelligence level in both states.

The general intellectual level of South Florida is somewhere just above "functionally retarded".

People have taught me not to look for intelligence in rockmusic.

I'm usually taken for a non-intellectual, a person of limited intelligence. I don't know why, but I figure it's because physically I don't look intelligent.