Stigma Quotes

A lot of people try to paint this child actor stigma, but I always looked at it as a great opportunity.

One century's saint is the next century's heretic ... and one century's heretic is the next century's saint. It is as well to think long and calmly before affixing either name to any man.

The stigma of the prostitute is the badge of her identity. That is why the client goes to her. If he wanted someone without a stigma, he'd go and screw the lady next door.

Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel.

Though my parents assured me over and over again that I wasn't stupid or slow, I sensed that my dyslexia was now a stigma on all of us.

When I was younger, there was a sort of stigma attached to my stamina. My dad took me swimming one day and I just was no good at it, so my dad said, 'Your stamina's bad.

In Hollywood, there really is a stigma against wrestling. I think that's why people think wrestlers are Neanderthals who can't string two words together.

The stigma of the straight-to-DVD thing is over.

Hopefully I never get hit with that stigma of being a novelty act. Since [my father] death in 1998 I've been doing a program called Sinatra Sings Sinatra.

Knowing your HIV status is such an easy thing to do, but again, we've created this stigma around even going to get tested.

There is a ceiling to it and there's a stigma. Billy Crystal as brilliant as he is, he's never going to be thought of as a contemporary like Alan Arkin.

I like the word 'underground'... 'independent' carries a stigma of whininess. 'Underground' means a good time.

Theres a stigma on the word therapy. People relate it to big problems. Thats something we have to change. Going to therapy can be very healthy. It can change the way you see things and treat others.

I wasn't making music consciously when I was younger. I was a musician, but that has its own stigmas. Anywhere on the planet, it's one of the more undervalued positions.

While there may have once been a stigma to making money, high-earning women actually have an advantage in the dating-and-marriage market.

It's quite clear if you look at the actors in film right now, some of them came from theater but they didn't come from musical theater. There's still a bit of a stigma attached to it I would say.

The fact is, psychiatric help is not widely available to CIA agents - and as in the military, there is a stigma attached to admitting post-traumatic stress.

I don't have any stigma attached to my body. When I'm in my own private space, I have very little on.

I had basically the same stigma that Bo Derek did -- being created by a Svengali -- which took me a long time to overcome.

I'm trying to work on my modelling career and remove myself from the whole FHM stigma.

Men and women who have served in harm's way experience higher rates of divorce and suicide. Many battle the debilitating effects and stigma associated with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

I think there's a stigma to some degree about the outer boroughs and Jersey, and whether their stories are worth telling.

When I was growing up, everybody smoked, including me. When I was 14, I started. We all did it. That was just the way it was. And nowadays there's a stigma attached to it. It's a big shift.

I don't want there to always be this stigma of the "female" artist. "Oh, what does it feel like to be a female doing something?" That hurts me.

Those with dissociative disorders face a big enough battle living as multiples and dealing with past trauma. Like everyone else, they deserve to be heard and recognised, not stigmatised.

The stigma of mental illness is first and foremost a social justice issue!

Self-stigma refers to the state in which a person with mental illness has come to internalize the negative attitudes about mental illness and turns them against him- or herself.

People should know about us. Girls who write their pain on their bodies. ~Louisa

I hated these visits, because I kept feeling the visitors measuring my fat and stringy hair against what I had been and what they wanted me to be, and I knew they went away utterly confounded.

I think the stigma attached to mental illness will disappear just like it did for cancer years ago.

You can’t be beaten by something you laugh at.

I keep moving ahead, as always, knowing deep down inside that I am a good person and that I am worthy of a good life.

It's so common, it could be anyone. The trouble is, nobody wants to talk about it. And that makes everything worse.

You are not your illness. You have an individual story to tell. You have a name, a history, a personality. Staying yourself is part of the battle.

While a psychiatric diagnosis can serve a purpose in treatment plans, it should not become a tool to discredit a person's disclosure of abuse.

It’s hard to imagine a more squarely on-the-nose example of demonizing mental illness than portraying a mentally ill man as a literal demon.

No one would ever say that someone with a broken arm or a broken leg is less than a whole person, but people say that or imply that all the time about people with mental illness.

I had people saying 'it's all in your head'. Do you honestly think I want to feel this way?

1 in 5 people have dandruff. 1 in 4 people have mental health problems. I've had both.

This disease comes with a package: shame. When any other part of your body gets sick, you get sympathy.

Stigmas speak to the idea of difference and how difference shames us and those we know.

We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything, than when we are at play.

Some disabled people spend a significant amount of their energy on trying to come across as abled or as not that disabled.

I have never seen battles quite as terrifyingly beautiful as the ones I fight when my mind splinters and races, to swallow me into my own madness, again.

What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation about illnesses that affect not only individuals, but their families as well.

I have schizophrenia. I am not schizophrenia. I am not my mental illness. My illness is a part of me.

The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.

I could go into their reality any time I chose to, but they could never come into mine. This is what I called 'helping' them.

We’re all just people making decisions and accepting consequences as we march toward an impending and inevitable death.

If you think people in your life are normal, then you undoubtedly have not spent any time getting to know the abnormal side of them.