Barbara Hambly Quotes

I think that there is incredible prejudice about witches while there is no prejudice about wizards. Words are very important, and I'm really into destroying myths.

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.

Israeli murderers are called "commandos," Arab commandos are called "terrorists."

I think most gypsies all over the world are used to being not really welcome and always on the run, expecting people to not like them and to be critical.

Why are some people bullied? Because they are different. How? It doesn't matter.

I became stereotyped.

All labels are offensive in some way.

But in America, if you're an atheist, you lose.

A lot of people say I'm bent, and I've heard it so many times that I've almost learned to accept it.

That kid who lives in the projects, he has a self-esteem problem - everybody looks down on him. He may be a good kid, but other parents don't want their kids to be with them because percentages say they could be bad. I went through a lot of that.

Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individual's abilities.

The whole thing is you don't want to be pigeon-holed as 'Oh, he's a guy in a wheel chair. He's very fragile. You better watch out.'

People look at me, and they have a certain perception, and they slap a label on me. The guy you saw in a wrestling ring is not who I am.

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

The hostility of society toward homosexuality is only a special case of its general hostility toward the adolescent spirit. In order to undermine the creative efforts of individuals to shape their lives by their own standards of human understanding and morality, society identifies their deviancy in terms of its inadequacies and failures, thereby undermining their access to basic social acceptance in adaptive areas.

Nobody wants to be seen with a bigot.

There's a lot of stigma attached to being in a home. Other parents don't want their kids to play with you because you're naughty or nasty.

Racist behaviour must be stigmatised so that it can be no more.

With any sort of minority, issues of ostracization or misrepresentation are clearly rampant. It's just so deeply rooted in our culture, and there are so many levels that it trickles down from.

I used to live in a street in Bristol which was, depending on your tabloid of choice, either Britain's most dangerous street or a moral cesspit. People made judgments about me on where I lived. It affected me - it affected my life chances. That is going on today with people in social housing. That, to me, isn't acceptable.

Labels are actually not to make us understand things better: they are actually to ostracise and discriminate that what does not belong to the majority.

People get stigmatised for their bodies and for their differences. Then those people become very vulnerable.

There's nothing in this country that is a worse accusation - in America, if you accuse somebody of racism, that person has to disprove that.

I am a marked person, and no one who's unmarked is going to understand that. It's very intimidating. I don't even know what my place is anymore. What's my role in society? Who am I, after everybody has branded me?

The trouble is that people are all too ready to jump to conclusions about anybody who they think looks a bit strange. They think you must be mentally subnormal.