Social Stigma Quotes

I am the Love that dare not speak its name.

I think it's always good for gay people to come out, but it's also understandable why people might choose not to do so.

There are certain things that are obviously problems and should be topics of conversation that aren't.

The gay thing has always been hard for me.

Going the bold way somehow has a very negative connotation in Bollywood.

Over the years, I would go to my agents, my manager, and I would say, 'Hey, there's this amazing true story about this gay English mathematician who committed suicide in the 1950s.' And they would be like, 'Please don't ever write that script. That is an unmakeable film.'

Treating women like a burden to the men is one of the reasons for poverty.

A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.

As the mores and laws of the South made such liaisons illegitimate by law and nonexistent in speech, race mixing became an erasable element of one’s past. Sexual intimacy between blacks and whites was not a subversive act provided it was not formally acknowledged.

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

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. It was a scandal that a breed of fearless and sinister people ran around freely, so they attached a nickname and a myth to these people to get even with them, to make up for the many times they had felt afraid.

When I was a young girl I had to deal with people calling me weird and strange because I spent so much time around boys playing football.

I'm poor, not homeless.

The Refinement of Shame. People are not ashamed to think something foul, but they are ashamed when they think these foul thoughts are attributed to them.

Not so much anymore but some years ago in my homeland there was a habit, something called 'casamiento de apuro,' a marriage in haste because the baby is coming and to cover socially the honor of the family. There, they weren't free and it happened many times this marriage is null. As a bishop I forbade my priests to do this.

Knowing you're gay, as a kid in the '80s, is a very scary thing.

That's why cocaine is illegal - it makes pussy too easy to get.

Even in this day and age, if you're not married, there are people who are like, 'Awww! Don't worry, it'll happen for you someday.'

I don't think France is a racist country, I really don't, but we do still have many problems with our immigrant past, and there's a shame that goes with that, that works both ways, in the host and in the post-immigrant generation.

I hear from a lot of young women, you know, I don't want to call myself a feminist because I don't want to get in an argument with someone. And it's just not cool; like it's not a cool thing to be associated with.

I went through depression, which is something that we don't often talk about when we look at undocumented communities and deported families.

It's better to not have a reputation than a bad one.

The first people who died of AIDS were artists. They were the most interesting people.

Most parents don't want their kids to have smartphones in the first place. But parents worry about the social stigma of their child being the only one without a phone.

I would hate for people to generalize about every Haitian from something that one Haitian did, or a group of Haitians did.