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“I have friends of mine who have died of AIDS and many of those friends...did not tell me until the very end...because they felt that there was a stigma, a taboo, attached to it...now we have more women infected with HIV/AIDS, many of those women were infected by their husbands who did not tell them”

Ends Felt Mines Husband Died Aids Taboo Hiv Stigma Hiv Aids

Author:Bianca Jagger

“This stigma associated with drug use--the belief that bad kids use, good kids don't, and those with full-blown addiction are weak, dissolute, and pathetic--has contributed to the escalation of use and has hampered treatment more than any single other factor.”

Use Kids Belief Drug Weak Addiction Factors Treatment Pathetic Stigma Drug Use Escalation

Author:David Sheff

“Raw and delicate, poignant and poetic, Shelby Smoak’s Bleeder exposes the sorrow and sometimes sweetness of coming to age with HIV. In a world of misunderstanding and stigmas, the young Smoak searches for love and acceptance, and his readers can’t help but find themselves becoming emotionally attached to him. His is an observant and encompassing story, noticing the brilliance of existence that others might take for granted. The sunsets written here are more lovely than in life.”

“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.”

Adventure Poet Stigma

Author:Tom Waits

“Step by step, we will break this cycle of silence, poor information and stigma.”

Poor Silence Steps Break Information Cycles Stigma

Author:Chevy Chase

“I like the word 'underground'... 'independent' carries a stigma of whininess. 'Underground' means a good time.”

Mean Independent Good Times Carrie Stigma

Author:John Waters

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

Decision Recognizing Stigma Bad Decision

Book:THE PETER PRESCRIPTION HOW TO MAKE THINGS GO RIGHT

Source: THE PETER PRESCRIPTION HOW TO MAKE THINGS GO RIGHT

“It's just so bizarre how in this world if you have asthma, you take asthma medication. If you have diabetes, you take diabetes medication. But as soon as you have to take medicine for your mind, it's such a stigma behind it.”

Ifs World Mind Behinds This World Medicine Bizarre Stigma Medication Diabetes Asthma

Author:Jennifer Lawrence

“I think a trillion dollars of student loans and a massive skills gap are precisely what happens to a society that actively promotes one form of education as the best course for the most people. I think the stigmas and stereotypes that keep so many people from pursuing a truly useful skill, begin with the mistaken belief that a four-year degree is somehow superior to all other forms of learning.”

People Thinking Years Happens Form Courses Belief Four Students Skills Degrees Dollars Superiors Massive Gaps Four Years Mistaken Stereotype Loan Stigma Student Loan

Author:Mike Rowe

“Remus Lupin was supposed to be on the H.I.V. metaphor. It was someone who had been infected young, who suffered stigma, who had a fear of infecting others, who was terrified he would pass on his condition to his son. And it was a way of examining prejudice, unwarranted prejudice towards a group of people. And also, examining why people might become embittered when they're treated that unfairly.”

People Way Might Young Groups Conditions Son Prejudice Metaphor Treated Supposed To Be Terrified Stigma Examining Remus Lupin

Author:J. K. Rowling

“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 going into the 'Center-for-Kids-That-Need-More-Help' or something like that. It was 826 Valencia.”

Needs Littles Different Helping Kids Bits Little Bit Happenings Psychological Stigma Valencia

Author:Dave Eggers

“You know, for most of its life bluegrass has had this stigma of being all straw hats and hay bales and not necessarily the most sophisticated form of music. Yet you can't help responding to its honesty. It's music that finds its way deep into your soul because it's strings vibrating against wood and nothing else.”

Knows Way Soul Helping Form Honesty Woods Your Soul Hats Strings Sophisticated Responding Stigma Straws Hay Bluegrass Straw Hats

Author:Alison Krauss

“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 Elliott.”

Want Sex Known Symbols Stigma Tag Sex Symbol

Author:Sam Elliott

“Regardless of what other stigmas may be involved, I think we have to do this because the world of medicine is trying to do the exact same thing and figure it out and they're coming to some conclusions.”

Thinking World Trying May Figures Involved Medicine Conclusion Stigma

Author:Pete Carroll

“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 medical community can look at, because I would absolutely go to those alternatives first before I went back to Western medicine.”

Firsts Looks Community Medicine Plant Western Available Medical Alternatives Stigma Plant Medicine Western Medicine

Author:Melissa Etheridge

“Stigma against mental illness is a scourge with many faces, and the medical community wears a number of those faces.”

Faces Community Numbers Illness Medical Mental Illness Stigma Scourge Many Faces

Author:Elyn Saks

“There’s always a stigma attached to the word ‘ambition’ and women. I’ve embraced it. Ambition is NOT a four-letter word and women have to embrace that.”

Four Ambition Letters Embrace Stigma Four Letter Words

Author:Tory Burch

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

Want Has Beens Stigma

Author:Mickey Kaus

“I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel good.”

People Want Feels Seeds Feel Good Get Over Stigma Make You Feel Good Hemp

Author:Ziggy Marley

“I've found nothing but support and generosity from older comics. I think comedians are a lot nicer than the stigma is, at least from my experience.”

Thinking Found Support Generosity Comedian Stigma

Author:Bo Burnham

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

Trying Whole Careers Remove Stigma Modelling

Author:Reeva Steenkamp

“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 so nice to see that people are turning out to see these movies, and it doesn't seem to be as big a stigma with the studios anymore.”

People Thinking Wells Has Beens Done Bigs Seems Comedy Nice Couple Summer Studios Stigma

Author:Will Ferrell

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

People Self Cost Demand Suicide Hateful Stigma Self Inflicted

Book:Darkness visible: a memoir of madness

Source: Darkness visible: a memoir of madness

“I spoke so much about being a manic-depressive. I want to bring everyone back to my earliest memories of this companion of mine. Some people call this companion I have an ailment, or worse a terrible nightmare from which some people cannot awaken. I know that I have nothing to be ashamed of. I have nothing that should garner a stigma.”

People Knows Want Should Memories Mines Terrible Ashamed Nightmare Spokes Companion Stigma Manic Ailments Depressive

Author:Richard Dreyfuss

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

People Trying Children Actors Opportunity Paint Stigma Great Opportunity Child Actors

Author:Zachery Ty Bryan

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

Stigma Dvds

Author:Edward Burns

“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.”

People Feels Littles Reason Moments Purpose Gone Feel Good Unhealthy Stigma Undesirable

Author:Gary Bauer

“It kind of irritates me that I'm seen as this pretty face. People also say I'm too thin. The truth is pretty people aren't as accepted as other people. It comes with all these stigmas.”

People Kind Faces Truth Is Accepted Stigma Pretty Face Pretty People

Author:Mischa Barton

“Theatre is expensive to go to. I certainly felt when I was growing up that theatre wasn't for us. Theatre still has that stigma to it. A lot of people feel intimidated and underrepresented in theatre.”

People Feels Stills Felt Growing Up Growing Theatre Expensive Intimidated Stigma

Author:Christopher Eccleston

“I want to tell people that I had post-natal depression because there is so much stigma around the subject and there shouldn't be.”

People Want Subjects Posts Stigma Natal

Author:Jennifer Ellison

“When I was younger, there was a sort of stigma attached to my stamina. My dad took me swimming one day and I just was no good at it, so my dad said, 'Your stamina's bad.”

Said Dad One Day My Dad Swimming Stigma Stamina

Author:Charlie Bewley

“That all men are alike is exactly what society would like to hear. It considers actual or imagined differences as stigmas indicating that not enough has yet been done; that something has still been left outside its machinery, not quite determined by its totality.”

Men Stills Done Enough Culture Left Differences Determined Machinery Stigma Totality Left Out

Book:Essays on Music

Source: Essays on Music

“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 to the topic for most of this century.”

Has Beens Consciousness Study Psychology Century Overcoming Topics Neuroscience Paradigm Stigma

Author:David Chalmers

“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 nice, even on the subway.”

People Mean Nice Opposites Genuine Very Nice New Yorkers Stigma Subway Kitsch

Author:Taylor Kitsch

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