I think that drag, being mainstream, it's such a wonderful thing because even my sister, years ago, they thought it was so taboo and didn't understand it, or maybe they thought, 'Justin, do you want to be a woman?' and I'm like, 'No, Alyssa's my character.'

Alyssa Edwards

Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.

Adam Ant

Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women.

Adrienne Rich

Shortly after Sisi was elected, his administration announced cuts of 'subsidies' on natural gas and energy consumption and lowered those for bread and other goods. Such action was taboo during the Mubarak and Sadat presidencies for over half a century, but Sisi was able to convince Egyptians he was taking necessary action.

Ahmed Zewail

Folklore provides a socially sanctioned outlet for the discussion of the forbidden and taboo.

Alan Dundes

I think controversy is an interesting thing in that it usually goes hand in hand with starting conversations that surround taboo or under-discussed topics that need to be discussed and need to be less in the shadows, in my opinion.

Alex Sharp

Providing free access to research papers on websites like Sci-Hub breaks so-called copyright law that was made to taboo free distribution of information on the Internet. That includes music, movies, documentaries, books, and research articles. Not everyone agrees that copyright law should exist in the first place.

Alexandra Elbakyan

I came from a generation of actors for whom TV was taboo.

Alicia Silverstone

I think that drag, being mainstream, it's such a wonderful thing because even my sister, years ago, they thought it was so taboo and didn't understand it, or maybe they thought, 'Justin, do you want to be a woman?' and I'm like, 'No, Alyssa's my character.'

Alyssa Edwards

We can't treat issues as taboo because we find them unpleasant.

Amber Rudd

The truth is I never think of any subject as taboo.

Amy Bloom

I don't think the idea of homosexuality is really taboo any more. Our culture is evolving. This is an exciting time to be living.

Andrew Lang

Not taboo - it's just that straight actors still risk their careers commercially and economically. They have to please the crowd - they're movie stars; their image is their industry. It goes beyond acting.

Ang Lee

I talk about race a lot. It's been my work ever since I came out of acting school. But it's true that in a way talking about race is a taboo. Because so many of our debates about race have to do not with race but with what we are willing to see, what we will not see and what we don't want to see.

Anna Deavere Smith

I was drawn to people that were expressing feeling because that was what was taboo in my family, expressing feeling. And that was what I was made of.

Anohni

When, at the end of the 1960s, I became interested in the Nazi era, it was a taboo subject in Germany. No one spoke about it anymore, no more in my house than anywhere else.

Anselm Kiefer

My vision is to make India into a 100% sanitary-pad-using country. Menstruation is no more a taboo.

Arunachalam Muruganantham

The taboo regarding menstruation exists across the world, even among the educated.

Arunachalam Muruganantham

To break the age-old taboos and to see girls and women use pads was a difficult task.

Arunachalam Muruganantham

Nobody in the society will talk about menstruation... it's a taboo in my country. That's why I'm branded by society as a psycho.

Arunachalam Muruganantham

The interaction between human rights campaigners from Pakistan and India was a big taboo in the 1980s. When we started traveling to India to increase people-to-people contact between the two nations, we knew that we would face serious repercussions back home.

Asma Jahangir