Quotes About Stigma

When I was growing up, golf was the geeky sport. No one really wanted to be associated with it.

I've never played on my gender.

The general public don't like boxers. They prefer tennis players.

Homosexuality is a genetic flaw.

If you are blonde with a little nose people always think you are gentle and not very bright.

The awful thing about a conductor becoming geriatric is that you seem to become more desirable, not less.

Can we imagine anything much more viciously sadistic than the Black Ghetto mother?

Because I'm a young black man driving a really nice, expensive car, I sometimes get harassed when I'm rolling through a ghetto neighbourhood.

I came out of what we romance writers call The Romance Ghetto, because we get so little respect.

We don't want to create a literary ghetto in which black writers are only allowed to write black characters and women writers are put on 'girl books.'

I never wanted to be a ginger.

I've put all the hours in and there's a depth to my education. There are a couple of brain cells in there, more than you might expect of a 6ft 1in ginger skinhead.

I never went to school wanting to play cute characters or girly characters.

People will always consider me a cartoon character, a bimbo. They will never give me credit.

I don't know why I have been branded a glam doll.

People want me to be so full of shame that I used to dance. I would never be ashamed of it. I made a lot of money. I had a good time, and it showed me a lot.

Being a virgin doesn't mean you can't have a good time.

All of this added weight to his reputation as a "nigger-breaker.

I saw the other loners the way everyone else did-as unappealing, as to be avoided at all costs. If I hung out with one of them, I thought, my unpopular status would get worse, not better, because it would be magnified by association.

When I first started out, 'Time' magazine did an article on what it called 'the sick comics,' and they were myself, Shelley Berman, Nichols & May, Jonathan Winters, Lenny Bruce, and Mort Sahl. We were considered 'sick.'

This is a common misconception about antidepressants: many people believe they're simply 'happy pills' that will wipe a person's emotional slate clean. Used correctly, antidepressants can lift the fog of mental illness.

Men think that not being able to wire a plug somehow makes them more creative or intellectual. It just makes them morons.

My wife and I don't have kids and people are down on us about it. But we're just not wired that way, so don't tell me I have to.

Today, certain people file for bankruptcy, businesses and individuals, and it no longer has the stigma it once had. Now it's almost considered wise, a way to regroup and come back again.