“When you have a defect, some people try not to see it only as a defect, but as your entire identity.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Women should feel happy with their bodies and not live with the stigma that comes from not looking like models in fashion… — Shakira Copy Share Image
“Self-stigma can be just a big a problem as the negative attitudes of others.” — Megan A. Arroll 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
I've struggled a lot with therapy because it's got a stigma to it, and also, it's really gotta work for you, I've… — Tyler Posey Copy Share Image
My thing is to get people out of the stigma of what a reggae artist should be like. — Shaggy 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
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
There isa stigma associated with incontinence, so many people never mention it to their doctors or seek treatment. In reality, fecal incontinence… — Brad Davis Copy Share Image
I think the whole stigma of 'black movies' is slowly being lost. When you look at movies like '12 Years A Slave,'… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
Growing up in the '70s and '80s, science fiction and especially fantasy had such a stigma attached to them. I felt so… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“the media coverage of the ‘opiate epidemic’ as driven by pill pushing-doctors and by pain patients worries me a lot, and I… — Anita Gupta Copy Share Image
“Success and failure can both make you lose appetite and concentration, don't let it bother or over-excite you, just think them away… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
There's such a stigma around mental illness, and this idea that you're going to come off as disturbed or weak somehow by… — Shannon Purser Copy Share Image
Slowly the wasters and despoilers are impoverishing our land, our nature, and our beauty, so that there will not be one beach,… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
“Society's goal is to make us less foolish. From the cradle to grave the pressure is on: "Be normal!" Our inner fool… — Mark Batterson Copy Share Image
Just take the negro child. Take the white child. The white child, although it has not committed any of the per -… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I have friends of mine who have died of AIDS and many of those friends...did not tell me until the very end...because… — Bianca Jagger Copy Share Image
So often we give God a partial obedience. We do not dare to disobey, but we do not care to obey fully.… — Ebenezer Erskine Copy Share Image
LeBron james came, and he gets $10 million a year. There was no stigma or blemish, like you have with one-and-done. Now… — Sonny Vaccaro 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
It is important to eliminate the stigma created by American imperialism and its allies regarding the Cuban political system. That stigma must… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
We think that if we get tested, that means you have to have HIV. Or we think that just by knowing someone… — Jay Ellis Copy Share Image
“Survivors are damaged to different degrees by their experiences. This does not depend on what happened physically. A Survivor who has been… — Carolyn Ainscough Copy Share Image
“Imagine you’re diagnosed with epilepsy: what would you think if you weren’t referred to a specialist but taken to a psychiatrist to… — Tanya Marlow Copy Share Image
“Despite the growing clinical and research interest in dissociative symptoms and disorders, it is also true that the substantial prevalence rates for… — Paul H Blaney Copy Share Image
“People ask, How did you get in there? What they really want to know is if they are likely to end up… — Susanna Kaysen 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
“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
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
“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
