Don’t let people’s stereotypes or stigmas or words—don’t…

I think it's so important to have visibility and to break down stereotypes and stigmas and everything that people are so attached to.

— Gus Kenworthy

'The Bi Life' will show many stories. I think that people will find some of those stereotypes, maybe some people are greedy, maybe some…

— Courtney Act

I think if I were a college professor, no one would say I was uncomfortable about being shy because that might be expected. But…

— Ricky Williams

“Why do people give into stereotypes others have about them? Why would you ever let someone else's negative thoughts dictate how you're going to…

— Gaby Rodriguez

We don't have milk cows. People have so many stereotypes of people from where I come from - Oklahoma. We don't ride around in…

— Carrie Underwood

People are stereotypes, they are caricaturized. It comes from both sides of the political aisle, it comes from the press. It's all about conflict,…

— Hillary Clinton

“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

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