Quotes About Stigma

There was nothing attractive about a woman of a certain age taking a nap.

But wasn't that part of a whore's job? Being the sort of ear that lonely men could turn to? I wondered who lonely women paid to listen. As with so much, it seemed as if the world had a solution for the one but not the other.

He knows who this was, when he was something other than a tall, pretty young whore.

Had she been male, she would have been granted a modicum of leeway, but as a woman she was damned as a whore

In your time, politicians win points in the polls for proposing to punish unmarried teenaged mothers like me, not to mention our children.

Silence and mental illness are not a very effective combination.

He is disgusted not only by the whores of his city but also by the "wicked" sexuality of women in general.

It's bullshit. It's so easy to label people, to look at a list of symptoms and say, "This is who you are. This is what you are.

And she learned - freshly, scorchingly - of the privacy of sorrow. It was as though she had been escorted through a door into some large and private club that she had not even known existed. Women who miscarried. Society did not care much for them. It really didn't. And the women in the club mostly passed each other silently. People outside the club said, "You'll have another one.

In Holland vergeleek men hoeren met paarden.

Pero la famosa Leyenda Negra alimentada por los enemigos exteriores de España —que acabaría peleando sola contra casi la totalidad del mundo— nos colocó el sambenito de la exclusiva.

We don't ask when people age out of singing, or eating ice cream; why would we stop making love?

Nowhere is ageism more sexist, and vicious, than in the domain of sexuality.

We in this country seem to be in denial about mental illness' the King said in his closing arguments. He went on to say that this must change. 'This is the place and the time is now' he said. 'And it's going to take strength'.

Dicen que uno acaba pareciéndose a la imagen que los otros se forman de uno; peor sería que apareciesen en el rostro los estigmas de nuestras obsesiones y anhelos postergados, esos que forman nuestra verdadera pero oculta imagen.

Moms in fiction and memoir get a bad rap.

Single guys get a bad rap.

Models will always get a bad rap about weight, but I love to eat.

Executives are convinced that a rapper has a certain lifespan as far as being a hot emcee. When you start to approach your 30s, pretty much stereotypically it's over.

If you tell somebody that you make music they're all interested. But when you say you rap, they just start rolling their eyes at you. It would've taken me a lot longer to get my foot in the door if I'd continued rapping all the way.

When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It's a slur on the divine in our nature.

I symbolized doping... My phone rarely rings. I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of riders who call me.

People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.

Hip-hop is so much about character and caricature that people just see you as a character. Very rarely are you flesh and bone to people.