Quotes About Stigma

Q: What do blondes and computers have in common? A: You never truly appreciate them until they go down on you.

You think I'm some inbred trailer-trash hick that watches the Springer show?

So many people and institutions are against homosexuals that, as a homosexual, you can't waste your time by trying to convince them that you're a good person.

To be thin and to stay really thin, sometimes some people literally do coke all the time. Some people smoke cigarettes instead of eating. That's crazy. But that's 'okay' because you look healthier.

Being from a divorced family almost felt like a scarlet letter at times. And I denied it for a long time.

You know, most people called rap stupid when it started, and it was one of the most innovative music forms of its time.

When girls are asking themselves 'Who am I?' for the first time and they hear all this bad PR about math, they think, 'Well, whoever I am, I'm not somebody who likes math.'

I was never in a mental institution for a long time. I was in psych wards.

My mother got pregnant with me at the age of fifteen. This was '64, and unheard of at that time.

I did model for a little while part-time, but I wasn't a bloody model, and I am definitely not that horrible thing 'model-turned-actress.'

Any time you see a white guy in jail, you know he did something bad.

The only time a message (label) can scare us is if we think there is such a thing, and that such a thing is a disgrace.

I get accused all the time of having a big mouth. But if you ask me, guys gossip way more than girls do.

I do think that, at one time, being an actress was the equivalent almost of being a prostitute. It garnered roughly the same respect. That's changed a lot, thank goodness.

If I were scared of rednecks, I would've moved on a long time ago. That's not a fear I struggle with.

Pakistan now is like a horror film franchise. You know, it's 'Friday the 13th, Episode 63: The Terrorist from Pakistan.' And each time we hear of Pakistan it's in that context.

There are no people anywhere who don't have some mental illness. It all depends on where you set the bar and how hard you look.

Looking at mental health problems the same way we look at other medical problems is factually correct—the best bet for reducing the disabling symptoms and the only way to lessen the stigma and blame that traditionally double or triple the pain.

Stigma" is a dressed-up word for ignorance and prejudice.

And if you're lucky enough to survive going crazy and get back to the point where you can pass for normal, it builds a question into the rest of your life. You have to forgive people for wondering, 'How all right can he be?

There are no people anywhere who don't have some mental illness. It all depends on where you set the bar and how hard you look. What is a myth is that we are mostly mentally well most of the time.

The cost of not caring for the mentally ill dwarfs the cost of caring.

Stars of David were plastered to their shirts, and misery was attached to them as if assigned. "Don't forget your misery …

Don't ask him for help," Mama pointed out. "That Saukerl." Papa was staring out the window, as was often his habit. "He left school in fourth grade." Without turning around, Papa answered calmly, but with venom, "Well, don't ask her, either." He dropped some ash outside. "She left school in third grade.