Stigma Quotes: top 84 famous quotes about Stigma

Stigma Quotes & Sayings

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What real job - what political world - would want Spencer Pratt, with the stigma I've attached to my name? — Spencer Pratt

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

I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness. — Gail Porter

Like the Bond girl, there's a stigma attached to being a 'Dhoom' girl. You have to look pretty good, and people are going to judge you. — Katrina Kaif

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

Overcome the stigma of self-marketing. — Scott Belsky

I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel good. — Ziggy Marley

The only reason I've shared my story is to take that tiny baby step of breaking down the stigma attached to depression. — Clara Hughes

Your hearing status doesn't make you a better person. Your humanity does. — Rosie Malezer

A panic attack is pathological exaggeration of the body's normal response to fear, stress or excitement. — Abhijit Naskar

When I was first starting out, if you were acting on television, it was a real stigma. — Christine Lahti

Stigma is particularly cruel for depressives, because stigma affects thoughts and depression is a disease of thoughts. — Matt Haig

The stigma of movie actors doing television is gone now. — Sean Bean

A phenomenon that might seem only backwards or silly when expressed at a social level becomes madness at the individual level. — Caitlin R. Kiernan

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

Too often the mentally ill are marginalized as people who just can't pull up their socks. If only it were that simple. — Suzanne F. Kingsmill

The heavy warlike losses of the AIDS years were relegated to queer studies classrooms, taught as gay history and not American history. — Alysia Abbott

My therapist told me that I over-analyze everything. I explained to him that he only thinks this because of his unhappy relationship with his mother. — Michel Templet

Any stigma will do to beat a dogma. — Philip Guedalla

Stigma against mental illness is a scourge with many faces, and the medical community wears a number of those faces. — Elyn R. Saks

By telling my own story, I hope to help remove the stigma. It never should be something to hide. — Richard Dreyfuss

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

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. — Carre Otis

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

The stigma of self-inflicted death is for some people a hateful blot that demands erasure at all costs. — William Styron

They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted me. — Nathaniel Lee

We did something that bands are kind of afraid of, or at least used to be, [which] is the YouTube scene. They don't want the YouTube stigma. — Chrissy Costanza

Humor can inform and break down stigma, which is a huge issue in the military. — Garry Trudeau

I don't want to be known as a sex symbol. There's a great stigma that goes with that tag. I want to be a Sam Elliott. — Sam Elliott

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

Although enlightened people know that an extreme phobia wasn't a form of madness, hey could not help but regard it as odd. — Dean Koontz

There are a lot of disadvantages with the YouTube stigma, because no one wants to be known as just a cover band. It's all about the original music. — Alex Goot

It's time to remove the stigma associated with promoting homeownership. — Julian Castro

AIDS itself is subject to incredible stigma. — Bill Gates

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

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. — Shannon L. Alder

There's a stigma about being vegan. Some people say it doesn't taste great. Don't knock it until you try it! — Tia Mowry

Baldness is visually enough of a stigma as it is without a big sweaty bloke on stage pointing it out. — Johnny Vegas

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

Until women themselves reject stigma and refuse to feel shame for the way others treat them, they have no hope of achieving full human stature. — Germaine Greer

Being diabetic was not what I thought of as being normal, and I feared the stigma of having to take medicine and having people stick me with a needle. — Nell Carter

Today a celebrity sex video isn't a stigma that requires penance and smarm removal; it's a branding device, a platform enhancer, a show reel. — James Wolcott

The stigma of oddness is the price a myopic world always exacts of genius. — Amy Lowell

The stigma of mental illness is still alive and well. — Kate Clifford Larson

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

Been under treatment for PTSD and bipolar since 1992. I'm not ashamed of my illness. I've been shunned by many and I feel for those shunned, too. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

Bad enough to be ill, but to feel compelled to deny the very thing that, in its worst and most active state, defines you is agony indeed. — Sally Brampton

Any stigma, as the old saying is, will serve to beat a dogma. — Philip Guedalla

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. — Lee Ann Hoff

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. — Julian Seifter

Unfortunately, mental health is so misunderstood that some people think you have to be crazy to need to speak to a therapist. — Nicole Curtis

The active ingredient in period stigma is misogyny. — Lindy West

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

I don't like the stigma that comes with being called a poet ... So I call what I'm doing an improvisational adventure or an inebriational travelogue. — Tom Waits

He's freed himself from every stigma, but he sits nursing his hangover of hatred ... . — Harper Lee

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences. — Audre Lorde

No sane woman would injure her breasts and still want the stigma attached to rape. — S.A. David

Even though I know that breaking your brain is the same as breaking your arm, I'm still ashamed that my brain is broken. — A.S. King

Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all. — Bill Clinton

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

Being stigmatied by sex is being marked by its meaning in a human life of loneliness and imperfection, where some pain is indelible. — Andrea Dworkin

Officially, it is no more possible to be a little bit OCD than it is to be a little bit pregnant or a little bit dead. — David Adam

The stigma of mental illness is first and foremost a social justice issue! — Patrick W. Corrigan

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

There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one. — Laurence J. Peter

I felt no stigma whatsoever in becoming the third Mrs. Gifford. — Kathie Lee Gifford

I want to tell people that I had post-natal depression because there is so much stigma around the subject and there shouldn't be. — Jennifer Ellison

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

There is no doubt that the new wave [of attacks] in Palestine will wipe off this stigma [Israel] from the face of the Islamic world. — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Generally, the greater the stigma or revulsion, the better the bargain. — Seth Klarman

Do we really want a society in which the stigma of going on the dole has been erased? — Mickey Kaus

Step by step, we will break this cycle of silence, poor information and stigma. — Chevy Chase

People don't realize who this band is always been because we're so young, and it's hard to get over that stigma. — Taylor Hanson

I honestly can't think of any drug that has more of a stigma than antipsychotics. Truthfully — Jenny Lawson

Stigma is a process by which the reaction of others spoils normal identity. — Erving Goffman

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

One thing a leader does is to remove the stigma of mistakes. — Gordon Moore

All bisexuality means is that someone COULD date anyone, not that they WILL. This stigma needs to end. — Kira Hawke

I'm trying to work on my modelling career and remove myself from the whole FHM stigma. I want to be seen as a classic model. — Reeva Steenkamp

Sometimes I wonder how I could have been so oblivious to the fact that proper treatment for pain is, well, not a bad thing. — Anna Hamilton

To be gay and out of shape is almost as much of a stigma as just being gay used to be. — Bruce Vilanch

Once you go on welfare it changes you. Even if you get off welfare, you never escape the stigma that you were a charity case. You're scarred for life. — Jeannette Walls

I've found nothing but support and generosity from older comics. I think comedians are a lot nicer than the stigma is, at least from my experience. — Bo Burnham

His friends will decline in their numbers as his needs increase. The inverse, or perverse, mathematics ay life. — Irvine Welsh