Quotes about Stigma

The world sees christians as people who use faith as a crutch. How wrong they are. The biggest crutch of all is deceit.

I'm tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It is the only disease I know of that we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to spread.

In England we burnt redheads at the stake, because we thought they were witches. There are still young redheads in Britain getting ripped for having red hair. 'Oy, Ginger!'

I spent most of my career in business not saying the word 'woman.' Because if you say the word 'woman' in a business context, and often in a political context, the person on the other side of the table thinks you're about to sue them or ask for special treatment, right?

The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people.

if you want people to leave you alone you should act crazy.

You know you can't be a nice girl inside if you're a dirty slut outside

A lot of people think I'm just an athletic thug.

People shave their heads all the time.

Donald Trump insisted yesterday that he is not racist, because one time an African-American won Apprentice. Because nothing says 'not racist' like making a black man run your errands.

The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho. You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.

When I was born, some of our relatives came to our house and told my mother, 'Don't worry, next time you will have a son.'