I felt no stigma whatsoever in becoming the third Mrs. Gifford. — Kathie Lee Gifford 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
When I was suffering with depression, people weren't talking about depression. It had a stigma. — Jennifer Holliday 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
I like the word 'underground'... 'independent' carries a stigma of whininess. 'Underground' means a good time. — John Waters Copy Share Image
I don't have any stigma attached to my body. When I'm in my own private space, I have very little on. — Padma Lakshmi Copy Share Image
I really wanted people to understand beating the stigma of, Hey suck it up,' is really important, because it's not as easy… — Mardy Fish Copy Share Image
“A true friend looks beyond your web of sin and scars. A true friend says, 'come as you are.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“I had people saying 'it's all in your head'. Do you honestly think I want to feel this way?” — Sonia Estrada Copy Share Image
I've found nothing but support and generosity from older comics. I think comedians are a lot nicer than the stigma is, at… — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
It kind of irritates me that I'm seen as this pretty face. People also say I'm too thin. The truth is pretty… — Mischa Barton Copy Share Image
“self-stigma is not a person's fault; nor is it a part of the person's illness! If the public did not hold negative… — Patrick W. Corrigan 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
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
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
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
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
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
My first AIDS campaign was in 1985. There was this dark cloud, everybody was socially inspired - we hadn't seen social consciousness… — Kenneth Cole Copy Share Image
Those who have prophesied dreadful consequences as a result of the greater sexual freedom which the young assert - unwanted babies, venereal… — Colin Ward Copy Share Image
Since I come from a family of mental instability, and I have suffered depression myself, I knew that living in shame is… — Mariel Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Laziness can be a value on its own for those who want to show supremacy through contempt for work and wish to… — Erik Pevernagie 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
“The stigma of chronic pain is one of the most difficult aspects of living with chronic pain. If you have chronic pain,… — Murray J. McAlister Copy Share Image
I think the scariest addiction on this planet is to alcohol. Because alcohol is a very addictive drug, and it ruins families,… — Brian Molko Copy Share Image
“What daily life is like for “a multiple” Imagine that you have periods of “lost time.” You may find writings or drawings… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
“Mental illness People assume you aren’t sick unless they see the sickness on your skin like scars forming a map of all… — Emm Roy Copy Share Image
“Although it is important to be able to recognise and disclose symptom of physical illnesses or injury, you need to be more… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
“Of course, I should have known the kids would pop out in the atmosphere of Roberta's office. That's what they do when… — Alice Jamieson 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
There is some stigma around reality television, and I've never quite understood it. — Zara McDermott Copy Share Image
Humor can inform and break down stigma, which is a huge issue in the military. — Garry Trudeau Copy Share Image
