Quotes About Stigma

No matter what happens, we couldn't let people say Asian-American actors can't act.

Mental health is not a very easy thing to talk about in sports. It's not perceived as very masculine.

Not that I am hugely working class, but in the U.K. I'm always perceived, casting-wise, as being working class.

Eighty percent of Americans with HIV do not know they are infected.

I don't know how to overcome this perception that I'm extravagant.

Everyone seems to have this perception that I'm injury-prone or I've had a lot of injuries, and that's not the case at all.

There's a perception in the industry that if the actor is not working or has taken a timeout, he or she has left the film circuit.

I am concerned about ageism and the loss of beauty - the perception that as you grow older, you 'lose your looks,' which I think is diabolical.

With eating well, there's a perception that it's depressing. People think they're just going to meditate and eat kale.

I've always felt like I'm on the outside. I think certain people judge you right away, and I've always been acutely sensitive to that. I'm fighting, whether it's accurate or not, a perception that I get of people thinking I'm dumb.

I think everyone has such a negative perception of homeless people - including myself, before I'd researched homelessness for my role in 'Hollyoaks.'

I did not want the audience to have the perception that I wore a bikini on screen.

People have a perception of you and that's very difficult to change.

People have ignored me in the past, thinking that I probably had an attitude. And I couldn't break that perception.

Sometimes I feel limited by people's perceptions of what I can and cannot do, or what I do or don't look like.

Whatever I do, if people see me in a certain light, then they will always judge me in that light. Their impressions and perceptions will never change.

For me, the word 'housewife,' because of, like, the 'Real Housewives' - I don't think housewife really means what it used to mean. To me, it's been a little bit overused to the point that it's not as loaded as it might be. I feel like in a perfect world we would say 'American Mom with Kids,' or something like that. 'Mom with Small Children.'

I don't know why in society when a woman demands perfection she is called crazy.

A possible link between 'madness' and genius is one of the oldest and most persistent of cultural notions.

After you have done everything to please a man and he's taken his pleasure with you, all you are for him is a whore, and a whore's daughter.

Contact with [menstrual blood] turns new wine sour, crops touched by it become barren, grafts die, seed in gardens are dried up, the fruit of trees fall off, the edge of steel and the gleam of ivory are dulled, hives of bees die, even bronze and iron are at once seized by rust, and a horrible smell fills the air; to taste it drives dogs mad and infects their bites with an incurable poison.

You live with the fear people might find out. Then you actually have the courage to tell people and they go, I don't think you are gay. It's enough to drive you crazy.

The woman without a husband doesn't have a friend.

When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.