Quotes About Stigma

A satirist that criticizes religion is seen as a satanist.

But I don't think anybody with any self-respect would admit to being Goth

I'm a hopeless romantic, I say very loudly and proudly. I get a lot of stick for it.

I've never gotten to do romantic comedy like most of the girls. Maybe because I'm fit, people assume that I'm not funny?

People tend to be put off by the idea of selling sex, but if you spend a winter's night with one of them and talk with her about her family and so on, you're likely to find she's just like any other woman.

Someone once said that homosexuals have on their faces a certain loneliness that will not come off.

Turing knew from personal experience that it didn't matter who you really were – it mattered only what others thought about you. According to Turing, in the future computers would be just like gay men in the 1950s. It won't matter whether computers will actually be conscious or not. It will matter only what people think about it. The

Se você quiser manter qualquer grupo humano isolado – mulheres, judeus, ciganos, gays, negros –, a melhor forma é convencer todos de que essas pessoas são fonte de contaminação.

It's okay to be eccentric if you're rich; otherwise you're just crazy.

Books make dangerous devils out of women.

I'm by no means condemning prescription medicine for mental health. I've seen it save a lot of people's lives.

I had basically the same stigma that Bo Derek did -- being created by a Svengali -- which took me a long time to overcome.

In a book published at the time, a lace manufacturer admitted that he expected his workers to turn a few tricks on the side to make up for his not paying them a living wage. Soon lace, including crocheted lace, began to be seen as morally tainted—it's made by prostitutes! As Donna Kooler suggests in The Encyclopedia of Crochet, this may even explain how the word "hooker" came to have such wayward connotations.

DID is about survival! As more people begin to appreciate this concept, individuals with DID will start to feel less as though they have to hide in shame. DID develops as a response to extreme trauma that occurs at an early age and usually over an extended period of time.

I can't stand THE DEPRESSED. It's like a job, it's the only thing they work hard at.

Girls are twice as likely as boys to avoid leadership roles for fear of being deemed 'bossy' by their peers.

As a child, I was called stupid and lazy. On the SAT I got 159 out of 800 in math. My parents had no idea that I had a learning disability.

Imagine a legal system in which lawyers were equated with the clients they defended and were condemned for representing controversial or despised clients.

This culture is rabid to tell women how much oxygen they can use, space they can take, tables they can join, opinions they are allowed. Code words abound to signal when a woman has stepped too far: hysterical, bitchy, bossy, aggressive. (The man versions of these words are: energetic, strong, decisive, assertive, because "bossy men" are just called "leaders.") Women have always struggled for a credible place at the table.

Surely they would divorce you for it." "No, why? It would be to lose everything for the man while his wife would lose nothing. In any case, it is not possible. Divorce is a thing of women.

That was what people did when they wanted to stop a girl from doing something—they shamed her.

If I were stepping down from the bus at the rich end of town instead of the trailer park, I wouldn't have to watch every word I said to make sure it wasn't slang for an orgasm.

I'm not sure I like this. It has a slut-shaming flavor, like they really wanted to give me Biggest Ho.

Let me tell you something, dearie: the world is a closed door to an unwed mother and her illegitimate child. If