Andrew Solomon

There is enormous shame around depression of any kind and at any time. And there's enormous social stigma attached to it, which we need to go on fighting. But I think that the sense of depression during pregnancy and early motherhood has been particularly stigmatized, that people especially feel that should be the happiest time of your life.

Writer

Susannah Cahalan

We separate problems with the brain into neurological and psychiatric, and it's because it's stigmatised still. Mental illness is still stigmatised. Imagine if we treated people with cancer like that. Just because your personality changes and your behaviour changes, all of a sudden you are put in a different category.

American Journalist

Alissa Quart

There's a motherhood penalty because we've been long taught things that are stigmatized about motherhood. As workers, we don't want to talk about our kids at work. We're afraid to, or that when we leave at 5:30 to relieve the sitter we're somehow going to be diminished.

American Writer

Mauro Ranallo

There is so much to be celebrated about mental illness. I do believe that there is something to be said about the truly artistic, the truly brilliant, those of us who have been 'touched by fire' that should be celebrated, not stigmatized.

Canadian Entertainer

Vera Wang

It is horrible to say, but I was stigmatized by being a bridal designer for a long time. I am amazed I have been able to move beyond it. I had really all but given up trying, but I did it because it was my lifelong dream.

American Designer

Shirley Chisholm

It is obvious that discrimination exists. Women do not have the opportunities that men do. And women that do not conform to the system, who try to break with the accepted patterns, are stigmatized as odd and unfeminine.

American Politician

Princess Stephanie of Monaco

You can't stigmatize people, you can't cut away people you admire just because they suffer AIDS. It's just not right.

Monacan Royalty

Curtis Sliwa

A rotten apple in the Guardian Angels stigmatizes us all over the world.

American Celebrity

Ron Fournier

Don't stigmatize in a rush to explain inexplicable evil.

Matthew Walker

We have stigmatised sleep with the label of laziness.

English Scientist

Using 'stigmatize' implies strong disapproval and judgment by society.

Negative Connotation

'Stigmatize' conveys a sense that someone doesn't deserve respect or attention.

Unworthiness

Stigmatization usually arises from collective misconceptions or prejudice.

Societal Judgment

'Stigmatize' often suggests a lasting negative label that's hard to remove.

Permanent Mark

Being stigmatized doesn't necessarily relate to guilt; innocent people can be stigmatized too.

Innocence Irrelevant

Stigmatizing can be culturally specific; what's stigmatized in one culture may not be in another.

Cultural Sensitivity

 And we run our companies like this. We stigmatize mistakes. And we're now running national education systems where mistakes are the worst thing you can make. And the result is that we are educating people out of their creative capacities. Picasso once said this, he said that all children are born artists.

Do schools kill...

 to those of us who have this dream to end gun violence. I mean, think about how much the world has changed in a relatively short period of time, how all those behaviors that were once considered commonplace or normal -- some even glamorous or sexy -- have become stigmatized in just a generation or two,

Why gun violence can't...

 And yet, this is a period of life where the brain is particularly adaptable and malleable. It's a fantastic opportunity for learning and creativity. So what's sometimes seen as the problem with adolescents — heightened risk-taking, poor impulse control, self-consciousness — shouldn't be stigmatized.

Sarah-Jayne Blakemore:...

 was bigger than a personal quest I came to know many people living with Alzheimer's people who felt stigmatized and alienated much like cancer was 50 years ago the general public was too afraid of this monster of a disease to openly look at it or talk about it and I

What would you do if...

 life where the brain is particularly adaptable and malleable it's a fantastic opportunity for learning and creativity so what sometimes seen as the problem with adolescents - risk-taking poor impulse control self-consciousness shouldn't be stigmatized it actually

The mysterious workings...

 in shorter spaces of time than other groups, and that's considered stigmatizing. I've always been a bit curious about that because I think stigma is a bad thing, whereas lots of sex is quite a good thing, but we'll leave that be. The truth is that 20 years

Elizabeth Pisani: Sex,...

 Our disdain for drugs and drug users goes very deep. We are bombarded with images and media stories about the horrible impacts of drugs. We have stigmatized entire communities. We applaud military-inspired operations that bring down drug dealers.

The harm reduction model...

 rate has gone down a lot we have to look at every country and say ok are they doing a good job with the different communities mother-to-child a lot of countries have done well to reduce that you have some stigmatized communities

Innovating to Improve...

 nor does our trauma taint our strength. We need to see mental health as important as physical health. We need to stop suffering in silence. We must stop stigmatizing disease and traumatizing the afflicted.

There's no shame in...

 Forge meaning and build identity. That became my mantra. Forging meaning is about changing yourself. Building identity is about changing the world. All of us with stigmatized identities face this question