Stigma Quotes
Collection of 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 mental illness is still alive and well.
— Kate Clifford Larson
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
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
It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
— Audre Lorde
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
The stigma of mental illness is first and foremost a social justice issue!
— Patrick W. Corrigan
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
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
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
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
