Top 360 Stigma Quotes & Sayings

When I was first starting out, if you were acting on television, it was a real stigma.

Never allow a stigma or the popular thing to define you.

Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards urged women to push the pro-abortion movement to the next level by publicly bragging about their own abortions, saying the next step is get rid of the 'stigma and shame' surrounding abortion. You mean they haven't done that yet? Abortion became legal in 1973.I thought they'd gotten rid of the "'stigma and shame' surrounding abortion" by converting pregnancy into an illness, which they've done. Pregnancy is an illness. It victimizes women.

The stigma of movie actors doing television is gone now.

Generally, the greater the stigma or revulsion, the better the bargain.

The stigma that was once attached to things society deemed unhealthy served the purpose of making them undesirable. With the stigma gone, many people see little reason not to do whatever feels good at the moment.

Stigma is a process by which the reaction of others spoils normal identity.

One of the issues I think is very important, in many communities of color, there's a stigma about mental health. We find that the shaming that comes from acknowledging that one may have some issues that may relate to mental health, often people are not willing to go and seek additional help because of that shaming or that cultural stigma that's associated with it. And I think that we need to make this change in how people approach mental health.

This journey of education and breaking stigma around HIV is something that will have a legacy everlasting.

The sad truth is that millions of people with mental illness suffer stigma and prejudice, especially at work.

Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all.

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 labeled and judged. We see the effect of stigma on doctors, health center staffers, and others who help provide abortion services. And we see the impact in laws that regulate and restrict abortion in ways that would never happen with any other medical procedure.

My thing is to get people out of the stigma of what a reggae artist should be like.

The stigma of self-inflicted death is for some people a hateful blot that demands erasure at all costs.

I think it's very wrong to be an unwed mother. You give your child the stigma of illegitimacy.

There is a difference between going under the knife and the stigma.

I'm trying to work on my modelling career and remove myself from the whole FHM stigma.

I don't have any stigma attached to my body. When I'm in my own private space, I have very little on.

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 found.

Overcome the stigma of self-marketing.

The stigma of oddness is the price a myopic world always exacts of genius.

Typecasting is really rampant in Hollywood, and because I played a costumed character and did it successfully, it was a real stigma.

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I was scared that no one would hire me. At that time, there was still a stigma attached to it. A big stigma. Actually, I think I was healthier after the operation than some people who have bypass surgery because I was completely cured. But when you mentioned "heart transplant," you got a very negative reaction. It triggered people's imaginations, and not in a good way.

Where LGBT and mental health issues collide is over stigma. And stigma is society's problem not the problem of the LGBT or mental health community. What we have to deal with is the ignorance, fear and prejudice that blight the lives of those who have nothing wrong with them in any moral or transgressive sense. It is society that is ill.

The stigma of the prostitute is the badge of her identity. That is why the client goes to her. If he wanted someone without a stigma, he'd go and screw the lady next door.

There's quite a stigma attached to country music in the UK - but I kind of enjoy that.

AIDS itself is subject to incredible stigma.

The stigma of the straight-to-DVD thing is over.

Lil Uzi and I gave Philly different sounds by stepping outside of the box and not sticking to the stigma.

It's time to remove the stigma associated with promoting homeownership.

There is a stigma attached to people who go from singing to acting.

Do we really want a society in which the stigma of going on the dole has been erased?

There's been a stigma out there that cartoons only equal kids.

We live in a fear-based world where HIV stigma can prevail.

I've had to prove myself beyond that street-fighter image with some people in the UFC. It has a stigma to it.

I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.

There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.

I want to reduce the stigma of the word 'feminism.' It's not about eliminating and excluding. You can be yourself and still be a feminist.

Any stigma, as the old saying is, will serve to beat a dogma.

What real job - what political world - would want Spencer Pratt, with the stigma I’ve attached to my name?

Baldness is visually enough of a stigma as it is without a big sweaty bloke on stage pointing it out.

By telling my own story, I hope to help remove the stigma. It never should be something to hide.

This is how systems of oppression work: The violence, discrimination, and stigma I face as a woman compounds the violence, discrimination, and stigma I face as a trans person, and vice versa.

It is important to eliminate the stigma created by American imperialism and its allies regarding the Cuban political system. That stigma must be eliminated. You may think that there are no direct elections in Cuba. I am going to tell that they are direct and you can compare our process with any other country including the United States.

I think the stigma surrounding mental illness and also the stigma surrounding self-esteem issues or insecurities or just even feeling different is something that doesn't really get enough attention. Everybody struggles with feeling alone or that they are going through something they don't quite understand.

I felt no stigma whatsoever in becoming the third Mrs. Gifford.

Humor can inform and break down stigma, which is a huge issue in the military.

I believe the biggest stigma right now, with mental health, is that a lot of men are not talking about it.

Any stigma will do to beat a dogma.

A lot of people try to paint this child actor stigma, but I always looked at it as a great opportunity.

I think there's a certain stigma that comes with being a white rapper and having a show.

I always prided myself on trying to break the stigma of the 'dumb jock.'

There is a stigma attached to community colleges, and we do need to change the narrative.

I don't like the stigma that comes with being called a poet . . . So I call what I'm doing an improvisational adventure or an inebriational travelogue.

I'm constantly fighting the angry black woman stigma, the 'You're pretty, you can't be funny' stigma.

There shouldn't be a stigma about age with footballers.

People don't realize who this band is always been because we're so young, and it's hard to get over that stigma.

One thing a leader does is to remove the stigma of mistakes.

There is a stigma around athletes, and I think the more that us as humans can do to break those, the better.