Stigma Quotes
120 quotes by 114 authors
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Within psychology and neuroscience, some new and rigorous experimental paradigms for studying consciousness have helped it begin to overcome the stigma that has been attached…
— David Chalmers
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There's that stigma about New Yorkers, how they're so mean, but in my experience it was quite the opposite. People were very genuine and very…
— Taylor Kitsch
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Our children are our signature to the roster of history; our land is merely the place our money was made. There is as yet no…
— Aldo Leopold
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To be gay and out of shape is almost as much of a stigma as just being gay used to be.
— Bruce Vilanch
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At Planned Parenthood, we see the impact of abortion stigma firsthand, in the women who delay getting reproductive health care because they fear they’ll be…
— Cecile Richards
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Failure seems to be regarded as the one unpardonable crime, success as the all-redeeming virtue, the acquisition of wealth as the single worthy aim of…
— Charles Francis Adams, Sr.
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Until women themselves reject stigma and refuse to feel shame for the way others treat them, they have no hope of achieving full human stature.
— Germaine Greer
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Guilt is one side of a nasty triangle; the other two are shame and stigma. This grim coalition combines to inculpate women themselves of the…
— Germaine Greer
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I started really young, like 12 or 13, and then I started doing school plays. We had a really good drama department, so the kind…
— Matt Damon
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But there was something psychological happening there that was just a little bit different. And the other thing was, there was no stigma. Kids weren't…
— Dave Eggers
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I don't want to be known as a sex symbol. There's a great stigma that goes with that tag. I want to be a Sam…
— Sam Elliott
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There are many plant medicines that are available to us that have a lot of stigma around them that I hope, in the future, our…
— Melissa Etheridge
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I think with the success of, like, every summer there has been a couple R-rated comedies that have done so well; I think it is…
— Will Ferrell
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The only reason I've shared my story is to take that tiny baby step of breaking down the stigma attached to depression.
— Clara Hughes
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I know so many women in their fifties, sixties and seventies who delight in being on their own. It's amazing. They don't see any stigma…
— Erica Jong
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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
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For women raised in the '70s, high heels can still carry a stigma; they're associated with being stupid, with just wanting to please a man.…
— Christian Louboutin
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Mental illness is the last frontier. The gay thing is part of everyday life now on a show like 'Modern Family,' but mental illness is…
— Eric McCormack
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Every teenager deals in his or her own sexuality and has to face it and figure out how it can coincide with the rest of…
— Ezra Miller
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Though my parents assured me over and over again that I wasn't stupid or slow, I sensed that my dyslexia was now a stigma on…
— Carre Otis
Who Wrote These Stigma Quotes
114 authors contributed a total of 120 Stigma Quotes, led by these top contributors: