Quotes About Stigma

The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it.

There are many plant medicines that are available to us that have a lot of stigma around them that I hope, in the future, our medical community can look at, because I would absolutely go to those alternatives first before I went back to Western medicine.

If you look at how people use the term 'western,' you can only conclude that it means a movie that has big hats and horses. And if you really want to sound like you've been thinking, then you'll use a term like 'genre.' But all the hell it seems to mean is big hats and horses. Which is not all that deeply analytical.

For a country such as India, whose public healthcare system is already severely strained, the lack of awareness and adaptation of safe practices by menstruating women is known to add another dimension to the overall problem.

When a woman shouts, she isn't usually praised for it. She's condemned as aggressive and coarse.

Usually in films, when Muslims pray, it's either before or after they've blown something up.

Usually, when people hear my last name, before they really get to know me or work with me, there's probably a lot of preconceived notions that come with that. And I imagine most of them aren't good. Because for every wonderful second generation of a famous person, there's people that aren't that way. More entitled people.

Comedy is a terrible way to meet women. It's certainly a way to start talking to them, but they always have preconceptions about you.

I prefer to say that I am a beautiful person. But the addict is a horrible person.

I can't tell you why I keep getting asked to play gay characters, but I never really considered 'gay' as an adjective, as a playable thing. Maybe it's an element of the character, but it just describes a preference.

In our culture, the shame about accidental pregnancy is inextricable from the shame about having had sex. That disapproval of sex is one reason our record with contraception is so poor. If you're not supposed to be sexual, you don't plan for sex. You cross your fingers and hope for the best.

Everybody thinks for one moment when they're pregnant that they're actually carrying the spawn of the devil.

If someone gets married at 15, they're either dumb or pregnant. I was both.

When I was a boy if a girl got pregnant the shame was placed on her and the boy could get away.

If I want to wear a long flowing dress, someone will say I'm pregnant.

What I hated then - and hate now - is the way that people say to girls like me who get pregnant young that it ruins your life. Having a child doesn't ruin your life - having a child is a blessing.

My mom was pregnant with me when she was 15 years old. She went to a majority white school so of course her being 15 years old, pregnant by a Black man, that was just too much for them to handle.

Dwarves are still the butt of jokes. It's one of the last bastions of acceptable prejudice.

When you first think of making a monster movie you have to realize that a lot of people may be down on you because there is a big prejudice against such films.

In the past, I've tried to show the human side of people involved in stigmatised or misunderstood lifestyles. I've tried to resist easy judgments and not pander to prejudices.

Too often, black athletes are presented as angry, overly aggressive and overly sexual. Or sometimes, they're just plain emasculated.

Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.

I don't know if it's how I speak or what it is about me that presents that sort of label, but I don't know how many times I have to be out in public with a girlfriend to stop that from being said.

I didn't want to be the daughter of the crazy people.