Christina Hoff Sommers Quotes

Once you're labeled as mentally ill, and that's in your medical notes, then anything you say can be discounted as an artefact of your mental illness.

It's not nice to be called a nutter, because it dismisses the input I've had into my own destiny over the years.

I lost most of my friends. Their parents had told them to stay away from me, because they said I was crazy, I was an extremist.

The problem with the stigma around mental health is really about the stories that we tell ourselves as a society. What is normal? That's just a story that we tell ourselves.

When we label anyone 'bad', we will have more trouble dealing with him than if we could have settled for a lesser label.

The worst thing to call somebody is crazy. It's dismissive.

I don't like stereotypes - no kind of stereotypes.

I am mentally ill. I can say that. I am not ashamed of that. I survived that, I'm still surviving it, but bring it on. Better me than you.

People tend to think I'm insane, and I'm really tired of it.

I definitely think that typecasting is something that happens all the time.

I'm going to be 58, and I'm a woman. In this business, that seems to be a bigger crime than being mentally ill.

No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious.

The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription.

The whole thing is you don't want to be pigeon-holed as 'Oh, he's a guy in a wheel chair. He's very fragile. You better watch out.'

We cannot educate children who are not healthy, and we cannot have healthy children without education.

Knowledge and engagement are a powerful antidote to forces that often work against our kids being healthy.

People ask if I'm concerned about getting pigeonholed. No one asks, 'Ellen, you've done seven straight roles in a row. Shouldn't you shake it up, do something queer?' There's still that double standard.

I don't find it humiliating when they call me a psychopath or witch.

There's stigmas attached to anything that makes you, in the public's eye, seem weak. So of course, you know, you're in a business where your image, and the way people perceive you, you are taught, is important.

Depressives have led countries, won wars, flown rockets to the moon, made great music. Don't let depression stop you employing someone, and never let it cause you to judge them. Depression is not a person. Like any other illness, it is something that happens to a person. It shouldn't define them.

It's so important that we all speak up on mental health.

My mom Neerja and I started this movement called Mpower. The whole idea is to break the stigma attached to mental illnesses.

It is one of the most ignorant things you can do to a person, to say they're nuts or they're crazy. It diminishes the layers of who they are as a person.

Despite being commonplace, too many people with mental health problems still face stigma, prejudice and discrimination.

I am technically not a midget. I'm a dwarf, or a little person, but I consider myself a midget. I just don't care enough to, I'm not going to waste anger on the word midget.