Stigma Quotes
120 quotes by 114 authors
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Stigma is a process by which the reaction of others spoils normal identity.
— Erving Goffman
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The housewife is an unpaid worker in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee: hers is the reductio ad…
— Germaine Greer
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People of color, particularly African Americans, feel the stigma more keenly. In a race-conscious society, some don't want to be perceived as having yet another…
— Bebe Moore Campbell
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I would say that we have to explore and find ways to make our game a better game and take care of our players in…
— Pete Carroll
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Being diabetic was not what I thought of as being normal, and I feared the stigma of having to take medicine and having people stick…
— Nell Carter
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Overcome the stigma of self-marketing.
— Scott Belsky
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Any stigma, as the old saying is, will serve to beat a dogma.
— Philip Guedalla
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Don’t let people’s stereotypes or stigmas or words—don’t let that put you in a box. Don’t let that ruin your day.
— Lil B
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I paved the way for a lot of white artists now that don’t have to deal with the stigma of being a white artist. I…
— Jon B.
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I have friends of mine who have died of AIDS and many of those friends...did not tell me until the very end...because they felt that…
— Bianca Jagger
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This stigma associated with drug use--the belief that bad kids use, good kids don't, and those with full-blown addiction are weak, dissolute, and pathetic--has contributed…
— David Sheff
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Raw and delicate, poignant and poetic, Shelby Smoak’s Bleeder exposes the sorrow and sometimes sweetness of coming to age with HIV. In a world of…
— Jenny Boully
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I don't like the stigma that comes with being called a poet . . . So I call what I'm doing an improvisational adventure or…
— Tom Waits
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Step by step, we will break this cycle of silence, poor information and stigma.
— Chevy Chase
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I like the word 'underground'... 'independent' carries a stigma of whininess. 'Underground' means a good time.
— John Waters
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There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
— Laurence J. Peter
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It's just so bizarre how in this world if you have asthma, you take asthma medication. If you have diabetes, you take diabetes medication. But…
— Jennifer Lawrence
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I think a trillion dollars of student loans and a massive skills gap are precisely what happens to a society that actively promotes one form…
— Mike Rowe
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Remus Lupin was supposed to be on the H.I.V. metaphor. It was someone who had been infected young, who suffered stigma, who had a fear…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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You know, for most of its life bluegrass has had this stigma of being all straw hats and hay bales and not necessarily the most…
— Alison Krauss
Who Wrote These Stigma Quotes
114 authors contributed a total of 120 Stigma Quotes, led by these top contributors: