Quotes About Stigma

All rich Americans are crazy, especially their women.

The woman who refuses to see her sexual organs as mere wood chips, designed to make the man's life more comfortable, is in danger of becoming a lesbian--an active, phallic woman, an intellectual virago with a fire of her own .... The lesbian body is a particularly pernicious and depraved version of the female body in general; it is susceptible to auto-eroticism, clitoral pleasure and self-actualization.

The prostitute is the sum of all types of feminine slavery at once.

Je suis un intellectuel. Ça m'agace qu'on fasse de ce mot une insulte : les gens ont l'air de croire que le vide de leur cerveau leur meuble les couilles.

Mrs. Spinney had red hair and alimony;

O. J. Simpson has already received the ultimate punishment: For the rest of his life he has to associate with golfers.

I'm not a flag waver for obesity. It's not healthy, and you have a crap life because there is such a downer on it.

Through dancing many maidens have been unmaidened, whereby I may say it is the storehouse and nursery of bastardy.

Indeed, if they had read Moubayed's article, what might have struck them most is that they appeared only as a supporting cast, their safety and well-being hardly given a nod to. The thrust of the argument was that prostitution should be accepted because it benefits men. Nor was Moubayed's flip remark to me about the material obsessions of "nagging" women an Oscar-winning moment.

Why are you so nervous, aint you been with a cocksucker before?—thats what I am, pal and I aint ashamed of it.

He had made much the same protest against the unfairness of the labels thrust at that world—a protest echoed over and over in that life . Ã¢â'¬Â¦

So she made no secret about being gay?" "Why should she?" the little old lady asked. "Nobody would care but a bunch of stuffy old men.

Okie use' ta mean you was from Oklahoma. Now it means you're scum. Don't mean nothing itself, it's the way they say it.

Why can't they have gay people in the army? Personally, I think they are just afraid of a thousand guys with M16s going, "Who'd you call a faggot?"

The company was selling an addictive drug that it said would not addict you as long as it was taken as prescribed. Then, when the drug did addict someone, and they began taking too much of it, or hoarding it to take all at once, or trying to obtain multiple prescriptions or early refills—then, that person was no longer taking it as prescribed. That person became one of the outcasts, an addict, and therefore the "safe when taken as prescribed" dictum remained valid.

It is bad enough that people are dying of AIDS, but no one should die of ignorance.

He said, 'They're only whores,' as though their very availability rendered them worthless.

Aronson's first law: People who do crazy things are not necessarily crazy.

Like you, I know people who drink, people who do drugs, and bosses who have tantrums and treat their subordinates like dirt. They all have good jobs. Were they to become homeless, some of them would surely also become 'alcoholics,' 'addicts,' or 'mentally ill.

One child out of wedlock is an error. Two suggests carelessness. Three—and six—is simply wrong. Wrong.

AIDS might as well stand for "Appalling Indifference to the Disenfranchised in Society.

People think you're crazy if you talk about things they don't understand.

Portray [people with mental illness] sympathetically, and portray them in all the richness and depth of their experience as people, and not as diagnoses.

Oh, and I certainly don't suffer from schizophrenia. I quite enjoy it. And so do I.