“Great writing about sex meets readers where they are, and it invites them through the door of evidence-based sex education, into a world where shame simply can’t exist.”— Emily Nagoski, nytimes.com
“Otis, it's perfectly normal for a younger man to be sexually attracted to a mature woman. In fact, when you stigmatize his choice, then you feed into an unhealthy narrative on masculinity in middle age.”— Laurie Nunn, Jean Milburn, Gillian Anderson, imdb.com
“Fighting for the people meant fighting on behalf of survivors of sexual assault—a fight not just against predators but a fight against silence and stigma.”— Kamala Harris, cnn.com
“Snot Boogie. [man shrugs] This kid, whose mamma went to the trouble of christening him Omar Isaiah Betts. You know, he forgets his jacket, so his nose starts running, and some asshole, instead of getting him a Kleenex, he calls him Snot. So he's Snot forever. Doesn't seem fair.”— David Simon, Jimmy McNulty, Dominic West, imdb.com
“Do not judge. Do not assume you know how they might be feeling. Do not assume it’s 'just for attention.' We all have a responsibility to remove this awful stigma and we can only do that by talking and sharing our experiences in a nonjudgmental way.”— Amy Stevens, themighty.com
“How much mental illness is "acceptable", and how much is going to be "too much"?”— Melissa Broder, amazon.com
“Letting moms enjoy cannabis — ideally once they've stopped breastfeeding — seems like a no-brainer. And yet it's still frowned upon thanks to some bogus war on drugs prohibition-style brainwashing.”— Kristi Pahr, theweek.com
“What did it mean to have AIDS at that time, when diagnosis was an almost certain death sentence? It meant being perceived as a monster, an object of terror even to medical personnel. It meant being trapped in a body that was regarded as repellent, toxic, unpredictable and dangerous.”— Olivia Laing, amazon.com
“Abstaining from sex, hitting the books, and wearing loose-fitting clothes are common ways that girls try to molt their "slutty" image. But more often their shame leads them to self-destructive behavior. They become willing to do things that they wouldn't have dreamed of doing before they were scanda…”— Leora Tanenbaum, amazon.com