Stigma Quotes

Julian had heard stories-whispers really-of other Shadowhunter children who thought or felt differen...

Here I want to stress that perception of losing one’s mind is based on culturally derived and social...

...the issue becomes not whether a person has experience with a stigma of his own, because he has, b...

Stigmas speak to the idea of difference and how difference shames us and those we know.

Holding one's self responsible is a critical feature in stigma and in the generation of shame since ...

At the root of this dilemma is the way we view mental health in this country. Whether an illness aff...

The age-old, seemingly inexorable process whereby diseases acquire meanings (by coming to stand for ...

I hated these visits, because I kept feeling the visitors measuring my fat and stringy hair against ...

My mother smiled. "I knew my baby wasn't like that."I looked at her. "Like what?""Like those awful p...

Perhaps our judgement of the purple woman was unfair. No doubt her theories concerning the "approach...

On Major Depression, quoted by the great William Styron of Sophie's Choice & Darkness Visible:From D...

Being stigmatied by sex is being marked by its meaning in a human life of loneliness and imperfectio...

To not have your suffering recognized is an almost unbearable form of violence.

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate th...