Quotes About Stigma

I'm a politician, and as you know, politicians are rarely very funny.

I'm getting nervous to be called a centrist. Breaking out in a rash.

I'd much rather play the psycho than the pretty girl in hot pants.

Being sad and being depressed are two different things. Also, people going through depression don't look so, while someone sad will look sad. The most common reaction is, 'How can you be depressed? You have everything going for you. You are the supposed number one heroine and have a plush home, car, movies... What else do you want?'

When the HIV/AIDS epidemic first appeared, a lot of the reaction was that it's not happening here. It doesn't exist. It's not on the continent of Africa. Then we moved into this other phase, in which it was kind of like, it's everywhere.

I'm not a nerd, don't plan to be a nerd and read books - which I can't do at all.

I have been hung in effigy by the gay community for a long time, from when I was on President Reagan's first AIDS commission.

People admire a screen actor if they have theatre skills, but it's looked down upon by the industry as being not a 'real job,' in the way it isn't in New York or the U.K.

I really hope post-Covid no one asks me when I'm going to get a real job again.

I hope that people who don't believe depression is a real thing will stop calling people crazy, because that's dismissive and not a medical diagnosis.

People don't realise how dyslexia affects your confidence and how brutal it can be. People think you're dumb, and you know you're not. it's just how your brain works.

Depression is a very serious thing. People don't realise how deadly it can be.

Women's anger is very scary to people, and to no one more than to other women, who think, 'My goodness, if I let the lid off, where would we be?'

I think we all realize that anyone can - and has - gotten AIDS. So there's obviously still a lot to be done.

When I was in seventh grade, I was bored out of my mind. We seemed to be learning the same things over and over in science and math, and two of the boys in my class were allowed to move ahead into these advanced classes, but I wasn't allowed because I was a girl.

I was complimented for looking young and yet was offered roles of aunts, sister-in-law and very soon grandma too!

All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.

There's still a great deal of bias about homosexuality.

There are girls who find the giant beard 'gross' and 'creepy.' I know because they tell me.

Grammar schools are about stigmatising children, not on the grounds of their ability, but on their background.

The school I was going to said they had no guidelines for a person with AIDS.

If a child had another disease, we'd be open about what we were going through, but addiction is stigmatised and comes with shame and guilt.

It's sad that the most glorious of sexual experiences can make us feel guilty, ashamed, embarrassed, and abnormal.

Society isn't good at dealing with people who have something concrete to feel guilty about or who are dealing with a loss.