Quotes About Stigma

The Virgin Mary was an unwed teenage mother.

I have a degree in liberal arts. Do you want fries with that?

Porque mostrei enfado com as diligências necessárias para despachar a bagagem, considerou que sofria de horror aos preparativos das viagens, rotulando-me de efodiofóbico.

It was the reference to Down's syndrome that most upset him. Mary described it as an 'awful sickness'. It wasn't. It was a condition, not an illness. What sort of woman could see it as a threat to her own bloodline? Had she really pulled up the drawbridge on her son's marriage simply to protect future grandchildren from

Is that why you asked if Weston was married? You think he's gay too?' 'It wouldn't surprise me. That sort look after their own.

People say, 'You're overweight'; they question your heart and character. It's a challenge again, proving to myself and to other people that I'm still here, I still have what it takes.

'The Mark' I played a psychiatrist. And in the '50's everybody went to a psychiatrist because if you didn't, you'd have nothing to talk about at cocktail parties.

When I was in my mid-20s, running a successful company and clinically depressed, I was afraid to talk to anyone other than my psychiatrist about it. I was ashamed that I was even seeing a psychiatrist.

You're not a nutcase if you want to go see a psychiatrist.

Psychiatry causes so much death.

Oh my gosh, I mean, I've had many experiences of men calling me psycho.

After my son died, I went to a psychiatrist. He proved - or I proved - that Sigmund Freud was correct when he said that the Irish are impervious to psychoanalysis.

I don't feel bad about telling somebody I see a psychologist. I don't feel that you should feel bad about improving yourself.

The idea of going to the psychologist, for anyone who has any problem, is associated with something negative. I think everyone sees it that way when it's really a very important thing.

It used to be that whenever I introduced myself to people and told them I was a psychologist, they would shrink away from me. Because, quite rightly, the impression the American public has of psychologists is, 'You want to know what's wrong with me.'

I'm not really interested in sports psychology. It makes me feel like a crazy person.

There is no such thing as mental illness, hence also no such thing as psychotherapy.

I don't like psychiatry. I don't believe it works. I believe psychiatrists are neurotic or psychotic, for the most part.

Most Americans think that public health is services for poor people, and since most Americans hate poor people and want all poor people's services destroyed, they hate public health.

What happens once you get a felony conviction? Now you are entering this American caste system where you can't get a job, you can't get a loan, you can't get a Pell grant, you can't get public housing.

As I graduated from public schools and started working in newsrooms, I told myself that I am only the 'illegal' that my own country has not bothered to get to know.

There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.

Some people wanted me deported - as if you can be deported to Puerto Rico.

I've been pulled over with four hoopers in the car before and we've all been taken out and searched because we were black riding in a white neighborhood.