Rita Mae Brown Quotes

I don't consider myself a pariah.

Much as the sage may affect to despise the opinion of the world, there are few who would not rather expose their lives a hundred times than be condemned to live on, in society, but not of it - a by-word of reproach to all who know their history, and a mark for scorn to point his finger at.

Initially, it was about kids at the bottom rung of the social ladder, due to their looks and their class background. But they're also outsiders in terms of their peer group.

Even more than this, however, the sick - like lepers - were often reviled because people believed that they had brought their torments upon themselves.

I was labeled a troublemaker, my mom an unfit mother, and I was not welcome anywhere.

It [the scarlet letter] had the effect of a spell, taking her out of the ordinary relations with humanity, and enclosing her in a sphere by herself.

Outcasts always mourn.

I am now considered such a monster, that I hesitate to darken with my shadow, the doors of those I love, lest I should bring upon them misfortune.

I was not the popular kid in school.

I came from Yale, where you get an extracurricular degree in self-importance because you went there. When AIDS happened, I was treated like an outcast. And I don't like that feeling.

I was a sidelines child: never class president, never team captain, never the one with the most valentines in my box.

Mrs. Hutchinson, the sentence of the court you hear is that you are banished from out of our jurisdiction as being a woman not fit for our society

In addition to pain, disability, and disfigurement, lymphatic filariasis carries a heavy social cost. Those disfigured by the disease are often shunned. Women are often rejected by their families. Both men and women can have difficulty finding jobs.

I am no longer a complete pariah in some academic quarters.

I was not a queen bee, ever.

I am not afraid of being a pariah.

I know what it's like to feel marginalized and defeated and humiliated by suffering from a mental illness.

Growing up as a gay boy in West Texas, I definitely felt like a bit of an outcast sometimes - that there was a world that I would never be a part of.

Pick any scientific field, and you'll find that those snubbed by their communities, left feeling alone and despised, were often those on the forefront.

I was the kid a lot of other mothers wouldn't let you play with.

Everyone has been an outcast at one point in their life.

I don't think there's much tolerance for people who are a little different or withdrawn or quiet. They always seem to be the ones who stick out the most, the ones who want to just shy away and withdraw.

By definition, of course, we believe the person with a stigma is not quite human. On this assumption we exercise varieties of discrimination, through which we effectively, if often unthinkingly, reduce his life chances.

I was... the loser of my class. I had absolutely no friends.

What hurts is not being homosexual, but they tell it in your face as if you were a plague.