His friends will decline in their numbers as his needs…

“...it really struck me that, just as people might look at me and never imagine I'd worked as a prostitute, they must look at…

— Sophie Hayes

Joe Louis and I were the first modern national sports figures who were black... But neither of us could do national advertising because the…

— Jesse Owens

“Society's goal is to make us less foolish. From the cradle to grave the pressure is on: "Be normal!" Our inner fool may be…

— Mark Batterson

“I have never seen battles quite as terrifyingly beautiful as the ones I fight when my mind splinters and races, to swallow me into…

— Nicole Lyons

“Survivors are damaged to different degrees by their experiences. This does not depend on what happened physically. A Survivor who has been raped will…

— Carolyn Ainscough

“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

It's always amusing to see how much less the political class knows than the rest of us do. ... it's never occurred to [the…

— Stephen D. Cox

Refugees are threatening, not just to Americans, but also in many countries the world over. And it's partially because, unlike immigrants, refugees do not…

— Nguyen Viet Thang

“Mental illness People assume you aren’t sick unless they see the sickness on your skin like scars forming a map of all the ways…

— Emm Roy

There is a lot of stigma and snobbiness about the self-help genre, and I can't vouch for everything out there, but for me, the…

— Matthew Hussey

“There comes a point in time when we must acknowledge that we are more than our nationality, and we are bigger than our ethnicity.…

— Janine Myung Ja

“They are not brave, the days when we are twenty-one. They are full of little cowardices, little fears without foundation, and one is so…

— Daphne du Maurier

And we have come so far like that. I mean, the advances on the medication side have been enormous, and the advances on the…

— Elton John

“I hope there is less stigma and judgment against working moms and childless career women. All should be acceptable positions and society should not…

— Chan Heng Chee

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