Quotes About Stigma

People said, 'You must be mad, or on drugs,' which I found a bit disappointing. What about imagination? It reflects our time that people sooner assume you're on drugs or mad, rather than free.

Over half the world menstruates at one time or another, but you'd never know it. Isn't that strange?

I have never been remotely ashamed of having been depressed. Never. What's to be ashamed of? I went through a really rough time and I am quite proud that I got out of that.

I'm thought of as this pissy, complaining, freaked-out schizophrenic who wants to kill himself all the time.

They pick me [to be tested for steroids] every time. I don't know why. I don't know if it's because I'm a big guy, or what, but all I know is all they are going to find is a lot of rice and beans.

No one would ever say that someone with a broken arm or a broken leg is less than a whole person, but people say that or imply that all the time about people with mental illness

There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.

Perhaps there will come a time when...an unmarried mother will not be despised because of her motherhood...and when the right of the unborn to be born will not be denied or interfered with.

My doctor is nice; every time I see him, I'm ashamed of what I think of doctors in general.

Once you spend time with [the afflicted], you start recognizing them as individuals, as opposed to lumping them in with everybody else who might have those symptoms.

Offering sex for money is not a profession that glorifies women; it is a profession born of desperation, poverty, alienation, and loneliness.

In Wildfell Hall, moral disease has become a norm.

Everyone thinks I'm showing off when I talk, ridiculous when I'm silent, insolent when I answer, cunning when I have a good idea, lazy when I'm tired, selfish when I eat one bite more than I should.

If I talk, everyone thinks I'm showing off; when I'm silent they think I'm ridiculous, rude if I answer, sly if I get a good idea, lazy if I'm tired, selfish if I eat a mouthful more than I should, stupid, cowardly, crafty, etc., etc.

Du bist doch eine echte Rabenmutter.

Will call him a she when the pee-pee is gone. Says Brave is to endure stares, jeers, prejudice. He won't.

How inexplicable it seems. Anything else will be accepted as a better excuse. If one sets aside time for a business appointment, a trip to the hairdresser, a social engagement or a shopping expedition, that time is accepted as inviolable. But if one says: I cannot come because that is my hour to be alone, one is considered rude, egotistical or strange.

If one sets aside time for a business appointment, a trip to the hairdresser, a social engagement or a shopping expedition, that time is accepted as inviolable. But if one says: I cannot come because that is my hour to be alone, one is considered rude, egotistical or strange. What a commentary on our civilization, when being alone is considered suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that one practices it—like a secret vice!

Setelah menjadi ibu rumah tangga, Kim Ji-yeong sering merasa bahwa masih ada dualisme dalam pendapat orang-orang tentang ibu rumah tangga. Kadang-kadang mereka meringankan situasi dengan berkata bahwa menjadi ibu rumah tangga sama dengan bersantai-santai saja di rumah. Kadang-kadang mereka justru menganggap menjadi ibu rumah tangga adalah pekerjaan yang paling penting di dunia. Karena apabila sesuatu sudah diberi harga, seseorang harus membayarnya.

By the way, there is nothing cute about a pink wheelchair. Pink doesn't change a thing.

A woman can never be angry; she can only be neurotic, hysterical, frustrated.

It sucks to be poor, and it sucks to feel that you somehow deserve to be poor. You start believing that you're poor because you're stupid and ugly. And then you start believing that you're stupid and ugly because you're Indian. And because you're Indian you start believing you're destined to be poor. It's an ugly circle and there's nothing you can do about it.

You're not pregnant, are you? (Jack) What would make you think that? (Syd) Barefoot. Pregnant. Them things go hand in hand, 'cause them pregnant women have feet that can swell up to ten times their normal size. (Jack)

I've been labeled all my life.