I felt no stigma whatsoever in becoming the third Mrs. Gifford. — Kathie Lee Gifford Copy Share Image
“If you think people in your life are normal, then you undoubtedly have not spent any time getting to know the abnormal… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything, than when we are at play. — Charles Schaefer Copy Share Image
Typecasting is really rampant in Hollywood, and because I played a costumed character and did it successfully, it was a real stigma. — Adam West Copy Share Image
“Bad enough to be ill, but to feel compelled to deny the very thing that, in its worst and most active state,… — Sally Brampton Copy Share Image
Knowing your HIV status is such an easy thing to do, but again, we've created this stigma around even going to get… — Jay Ellis Copy Share Image
When I was suffering with depression, people weren't talking about depression. It had a stigma. — Jennifer Holliday Copy Share Image
“Some disabled people spend a significant amount of their energy on trying to come across as abled or as not that disabled.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The stigma of self-inflicted death is for some people a hateful blot that demands erasure at all costs. — William Styron Copy Share Image
It used to be such a stigma, making that transition to various entertainment medias. There are a couple of actresses who have… — Joanna Cassidy Copy Share Image
Not everybody needs medication, and there is a big stigma around it, people can't wait to come off it or they are… — Frankie Bridge Copy Share Image
A lot of the stigma attached to council and social housing comes about because we are building such a low number, they're… — George Clarke Copy Share Image
“...it really struck me that, just as people might look at me and never imagine I'd worked as a prostitute, they must… — Sophie Hayes Copy Share Image
Within psychology and neuroscience, some new and rigorous experimental paradigms for studying consciousness have helped it begin to overcome the stigma that… — David Chalmers Copy Share Image
No stigma attaches to the love of money in America, and provided it does not exceed the bounds imposed by public order,… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Interracial marriages were basically legalized, but nevertheless, there was a social stigma attached to them for a long time to come. I… — Mark Takano Copy Share Image
“In reviewing his own moral career, the stigmatized individual may single out and retrospectively elaborate experiences which serve for him to account… — Erving Goffman Copy Share Image
Remus Lupin was supposed to be on the H.I.V. metaphor. It was someone who had been infected young, who suffered stigma, who… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Failure seems to be regarded as the one unpardonable crime, success as the all-redeeming virtue, the acquisition of wealth as the single… — Charles Francis Adams, Sr Copy Share Image
I spent the past week here in India getting a sense of the reality of HIV and AIDS in people's lives. Fathers… — Ralph Fiennes Copy Share Image
“They are not brave, the days when we are twenty-one. They are full of little cowardices, little fears without foundation, and one… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
Along with my passion for horse breeding, I was a horse racing enthusiast... In 1974 I was elected as a committee member… — Cyrus S. Poonawalla Copy Share Image
Given the reality of unintended parenthood and parental unhappiness, one would think that women and men who make the decision not to… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
At Planned Parenthood, we see the impact of abortion stigma firsthand, in the women who delay getting reproductive health care because they… — Cecile Richards Copy Share Image
Chicago is a beautiful city. It's one of those places that people around the world see and say, 'Maybe one day.' There's… — Dwyane Wade Copy Share Image
“You see, people in the depressive position are often stigmatised as ‘failures' or ‘losers'. Of course, nothing could be further from the… — Neel Burton Copy Share Image
“Like a lot of people with mental illness, I spend a lot of time fronting. It’s really important to me to not… — S.E. Smith Copy Share Image
The mental cognitive processes that we're targeting are ones that narrow human beings' repertoire and make it harder for them to learn… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share Image
“When you come out of the grips of a depression there is an incredible relief, but not one you feel allowed to… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
“I believe the perception of what people think about DID is I might be crazy, unstable, and low functioning. After my diagnosis,… — Esmay T. Parker Copy Share Image
“Here I want to stress that perception of losing one’s mind is based on culturally derived and socially ingrained stereotypes as to… — Erving Goffman Copy Share Image
“In this chapter I restrict myself to exploring the nature of the amnesia which is reported between personality states in most people… — John Morton Copy Share Image
“There comes a point in time when we must acknowledge that we are more than our nationality, and we are bigger than… — Janine Myung Ja Copy Share Image
