The normal and the stigmatized are not persons, but…

The term stigma and its synonyms conceal a double perspective: does the stigmatized individual assume his differentness is known about already or is evident…

— Erving Goffman

“Here I want to stress that perception of losing one’s mind is based on culturally derived and socially ingrained stereotypes as to the significance…

— Erving Goffman

The stigmatized individual is asked to act so as to imply neither that his burden is heavy nor that bearing it has made him…

— Erving Goffman

“In reviewing his own moral career, the stigmatized individual may single out and retrospectively elaborate experiences which serve for him to account for his…

— Erving Goffman

People with HIV are still stigmatized. The infection rates are going up. People are dying. The political response is appalling. The sadness of it,…

— Elton John

“Disclosures of childhood sexual abuse have frequently been discredited through the diagnosis of hysteria. In this view, women/female children were seen either as culpable…

— Judith L. Alpert

I've never felt stigmatized in my profession, nor have I allowed myself to. I don't feel either male or female, I feel I am…

— Miranda Richardson

I'm a mental-health advocate big time, so I think it's great when depression is a thing that's discussed out in the open, because it's…

— Emily V. Gordon

I am stigmatized by a living death in which real death holds no terrors for me.

— Antonin Artaud

“Individuals are often stigmatized and told their illness isn’t real… People with [ME] CFS face an incredible burden just getting doctors to take their…

— Barry E. Hurwitz

“Mental illness" is among the most stigmatized of categories.' People are ashamed of being mentally ill. They fear disclosing their condition to their friends…

— Elyn R. Saks

Any kind of consciousness that is not related to the production or consumption of material goods is stigmatized in our society today.

— Graham Hancock

I am sorry we promoted sexual orientation change efforts and reparative theories about sexual orientation that stigmatized parents.

— Alan Chambers

“In the debate over opioid addiction, there’s one group we aren’t hearing from: chronic pain patients, many of whom need to use the drugs…

— S. E. Smith

“I will be living with chronic pain for the rest of my life. I don’t have the mobility, energy or life options I used…

— Sonya Huber