Quotes About Stigma

Sir, married or unmarried, all women bleed.

She glorified in her unmarried-mother act. In

Sooner or later people are bound to classify you as something. I

I can't feel exactly happy... Nobody could that has red hair

You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was deluded

No dia seguinte entrou a dizer de mim nomes feios, e acabou alcunhando-me  Dom Casmurro. Os vizinhos, que não gostam dos meus hábitos reclusos e calados, deram curso à alcunha, que afinal pegou. 

the stereotype of the lazy academic is, like that of the welfare queen, a politically useful myth" (par. 24).

We prematurely write off people as failures. We are too much in awe of those who succeed and far too dismissive of those who fail.

this wasn't about something really obvious, such as skin color or age or height or weight. It was just about hair. Something about the first impression created by my hair derailed every other consideration in the hunt for the rapist.

How come every other organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy, except the brain?

Why is that when people become ill and have something wrong with any of their organs, they get sympathy from other people - except when that organ is their brain?

The homosexual is a scapegoat who evokes no sympathy. Hence, he can only be a victim, never a martyr.

There's nothing more debilitating about a disability than the way people treat you over it.

But in any case, I did poorly on the tests and so, in the first three years of school, I had teachers who thought I was stupid and when people think you're stupid, they have low expectations for you.

She knew women who couldn't keep their pregnancies and some who could never even get pregnant. They were treated poorly by their husbands, their own families, everyone around them. A woman had to get pregnant, had to give birth—it was part of being a woman, as natural as having breasts and a womb. A woman who never became a mother was incomplete. "Thank

There are all kinds of psychological disorders in the West that don't exist in Asia.

Women who are attacked phone a hotline for advice. Don't report a rape, the women are told. Call it indecent exposure. A guy who takes it out and doesn't do anything with it--cops figure that guys is sick.

Being stigmatied by sex is being marked by its meaning in a human life of loneliness and imperfection, where some pain is indelible.

The argument between wives and whores is an old one; each one thinking that whatever she is, at least she is not the other.

In analyzing the sex-class system, feminists are accused of inventing or perpetuating it. Calling attention to it, we are told, insults women by suggesting that they are victims, stupid enough to allow themselves to be victimized. Feminists are accused of being the agents of degradation by postulation that such degradation exists.

Treating an identity as an illness invites real illness to make a braver stand.

Labeling a child's mind as diseased—whether with autism, intellectual disabilities, or transgenderism—may reflect the discomfort that mind gives parents more than any discomfort it causes their child. Much gets corrected that might better have been left alone.

What to say? That I would have loved to make the trip but was busy staying out of the mental hospital? It's so humiliating—so degrading. If I knew I wouldn't get caught, I'd love to lie about it—invent an acceptable cancer, that recurs and vanishes, that people could understand—that wouldn't make them frightened and uncomfortable.

Mental illness is real illness