Quotes About Stigma

I feel weird talking about it, because how can I, as the guitar player of Slipknot, sit here and say, 'Oh, I have trouble.' You know what I mean?

I didn't want the children to grow up and, when asked what their mother did, say, 'Oh, Mom's a gun moll in the movies.'

I look into people's eyes and I know they think I'm a bad guy.

I guess this is where they send the abortions that live.

Homosexuals are... widely consigned to the same category of things as drugs, the category of illicit dirty things that people have to be protected from... since the homosexual is continually taught by the world around him that his natural home is the sewer, the homosexual is uniquely equipped to discover what truly belongs and doesn't belong in the sewer.

I'm a genius! Geniuses don't NEED medication!

Mental illness is often in the eye of the beholder. Too often on this PLANET it refers to those who think and act differently from the majority.

People don't want other people to be people. They throw names over them and lock them in

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy; and he concludes from this that the black is good for nothing but shining shoes.

You know you can't be a nice girl inside if you're a dirty slut outside

I'll bet there aren't too many people hooked on crack who can play the bagpipes.

There's also way too much religion in the South to be consistent with good mental health.

I'm tired of someone being called 'quirky' because they tripped or got a stain on their shirt. It's like a beautiful blonde lady who's quirky because she has bedhead, or she's quirky because she sometimes says the wrong, cute thing. I like it when women are quirky as human beings.

In addition to pain, disability, and disfigurement, lymphatic filariasis carries a heavy social cost. Those disfigured by the disease are often shunned. Women are often rejected by their families. Both men and women can have difficulty finding jobs.

It's ingrained in people's minds that it's a typecast and a stereotype that women are just emotional and crazy.

When I won the world championship, in 1972, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, a baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.

Felons are typically stripped of the very rights supposedly won in the civil rights movement, including the right to vote, the right to serve on juries, and the right to be free of legal discrimination in employment, housing, access to education, and public benefits. They're relegated to a permanent undercaste.

Depressives have led countries, won wars, flown rockets to the moon, made great music. Don't let depression stop you employing someone, and never let it cause you to judge them. Depression is not a person. Like any other illness, it is something that happens to a person. It shouldn't define them.

Well, for someone who looks like me you wonder where Alfred Hitchcock is.

Of course I've been called everything; Wonder Wonder Woman, Wonder Bra, Wonder Bread.

The two most wonderful things in life are money and sex, but the minute you start discussing them, they become b-o-r-i-n-g.

You know, for most of its life bluegrass has had this stigma of being all straw hats and hay bales and not necessarily the most sophisticated form of music. Yet you can't help responding to its honesty. It's music that finds its way deep into your soul because it's strings vibrating against wood and nothing else.

Oh all the time when Victoria Wood and I did our series. There were people asking 'Can women be funny?' People still ask that. It's like asking: 'Can women breathe in and out?'