Stigma Quotes

• The stigma of oddness is the price a myopic world always exacts of genius.

  

  Amy Lowell
  • World
  • Genius
  • Price

• I've had to fight to be myself and to be respected. I'm proud to carry this stigma and call myself a lesbian. I don't boast about it or broadcast it, but I don't deny it. I've had to confront society and the Church.

  

  Isabel Vargas Lizano
  • Society
  • Proud
  • Church

• This stigma associated with drug use--the belief that bad kids use, good kids don't, and those with full-blown addiction are weak, dissolute, and pathetic--has contributed to the escalation of use and has hampered treatment more than any single other factor.

  

  David Sheff
  • Kids
  • Addiction
  • Treatment

• Stigma is a process by which the reaction of others spoils normal identity.

  

  Erving Goffman
  • Identity
  • Process
  • Normal

• HIV AIDS is a disease with stigma. And we have learned with experience, not just with HIV AIDS but with other diseases, countries for many reasons are sometimes hesitant to admit they have a problem.

  

  Margaret Chan
  • Experience
  • Disease
  • Aids

• 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
  • Band
  • Stigma
  • Disadvantages

• 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
  • Parents
  • Dyslexia
  • Sensed

• We do know that a percentage of LGBT people avoid and delay screening and care because of fear about or experience of stigma, discrimination or simply lack of knowledge about LGBT people and their health amongst providers. If you avoid or delay screening and care and you have an issue that may be precancerous, by the time you get into screening and care you’re there because it has become acute and you already have a progressed disease.

  

  Barbara Warren
  • Knowledge
  • Health
  • Care

• The first proof of a person's incapacity to achieve, is their endeavoring to fix the stigma of failure on others.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Failure
  • Proof
  • Incapacity

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

  

  Vincent Piazza
  • Thinking
  • Stories
  • Degrees

• I know so many women in their fifties, sixties and seventies who delight in being on their own. It's amazing. They don't see any stigma attached to it. We don't need a man to prove our identity anymore.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Men
  • Identity
  • Prove

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

  

  William Styron
  • People
  • Suicide
  • Hateful

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

  

  Mickey Kaus
  • Beens
  • Stigma
  • Erased

• Think about the stigma that is attached to the idea that alcoholism is a disease, an incurable illness, and you have it. That's a terrible thing to inflict on someone. Labeling alcoholism as a disease, a cause unto itself, simply no longer fits with what we know today about its causes.

  

  Chris Prentiss
  • Disease
  • Alcoholism
  • Fits

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

  

  Bruce Vilanch
  • Gay
  • Stigma

• As long as this stigma exists, that Charles Taylor is supposed to be Attila the Hun, nothing is going to come here. And now it’s not just about me, it’s about this country living.

  

  Charles Taylor
  • Supposed
  • Attila the Hun
  • Charles Taylor

• Pretty people aren't as accepted as other people. It comes with all these stigmas.

  

  Mischa Barton
  • Accepted
  • Stigma

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

  

  Reeva Steenkamp
  • Trying
  • Remove
  • Modelling

• AIDS itself is subject to incredible stigma.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Aids
  • Subject
  • Stigma

• Failure seems to be regarded as the one unpardonable crime, success as the all-redeeming virtue, the acquisition of wealth as the single worthy aim of life. Ten years ago such revelations as these of the Erie Railway would have sent a shudder through the community, and would have placed a stigma on every man who had had to do them. Now they merely incite others to surpass by yet bolder outrages and more corrupt combinations.

  

  Charles Francis Adams, Sr.
  • Failure
  • Virtue
  • Wealth

• Models have a stigma that they can't act. You're also, to be quite blunt, you're tall and not a lot of actors are tall and when you are starting out you're obviously not the first one cast, so you're trying to fit into a mold. You're quite often not cast as the quirky best friend, but you don't have the experience to be cast as the lead. So it can be really tricky. One of the biggest things is just to get your people, so to speak, your agents and managers to take you seriously. That's one of the issues I had when I came out to LA.

  

  Tricia Helfer
  • Experience
  • Friend
  • Actors

• There are many plant medicines that are available to us that have a lot of stigma around them that I hope, in the future, our medical community can look at, because I would absolutely go to those alternatives first before I went back to Western medicine.

  

  Melissa Etheridge
  • Community
  • Plant
  • Medical

• I know that language will be a crucial instrument, that I can overcome the stigma of my marginality, the weight of presumption against me, only if the reassuringly right sounds come out of my mouth.

  

  Eva Hoffman
  • Language
  • Weight
  • Marginality

• I think young people are recognizing the power of institutions, and we have to really dismantle a lot of the stigma and shame, culturally, but we also have to change things in terms of how government and institutions deal with this.

  

  Cecile Richards
  • Government
  • Term
  • Deals

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