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Joycelyn Elders quotes: Condoms will break, but I can assure you that vows of abstinence will break more easily than condoms.

Condoms will break, but I can assure you that vows of abstinence will break more easily than condoms.

Joycelyn Elders quotes: We really need to get over this love affair with the fetus and start worrying about children.

We really need to get over this love affair with the fetus and start worrying about children.

Joycelyn Elders quotes: We've tried ignorance for a thousand years. It's time we try education.

We've tried ignorance for a thousand years. It's time we try education.

Joycelyn Elders quotes: But I'm saying we are loosing the people who are going to pay my social security. And that bothers me.

But I'm saying we are loosing the people who are going to pay my social security. And that bothers me.

Joycelyn Elders quotes: You can't keep an ignorant population healthy.

You can't keep an ignorant population healthy.

Joycelyn Elders quotes: [On masturbation:] I think that it is part of human sexuality, and perhaps it should be taught.

[On masturbation:] I think that it is part of human sexuality, and perhaps it should be taught.

Joycelyn Elders quotes: We know that more than seventy to eighty percent of women masturbate, and ninety percent of men masturbate, and the rest lie.

We know that more than seventy to eighty percent of women masturbate, and ninety percent of men masturbate, and the rest lie.

Joycelyn Elders quotes: Guns kill more teenagers than the other big killers - heart disease, cancer, and AIDS - combined.

Guns kill more teenagers than the other big killers - heart disease, cancer, and AIDS - combined.

Joycelyn Elders quotes: I'm against abstinence programs because I really consider "abstinence only" child abuse.

I'm against abstinence programs because I really consider "abstinence only" child abuse.

Joycelyn Elders quotes: Masturbation never got anybody pregnant, does not make anybody go crazy, and what we're about is preventing HIV in our bright young people.

Masturbation never got anybody pregnant, does not make anybody go crazy, and what we're about is preventing HIV in our bright young people.

Joycelyn Elders quotes: You can't educate people that are not healthy. But you certainly can't keep them healthy if they're not educated.

You can't educate people that are not healthy. But you certainly can't keep them healthy if they're not educated.

Joycelyn Elders quotes: If men went through menopause, we'd know everything about it, but we still don't even know if we should be taking hormones.

If men went through menopause, we'd know everything about it, but we still don't even know if we should be taking hormones.

Joycelyn Elders quotes: It is often easier for our children to obtain a gun than it is to find a good school.

It is often easier for our children to obtain a gun than it is to find a good school.

Joycelyn Elders quotes: If you can't control your reproduction, you can't control your life.

If you can't control your reproduction, you can't control your life.

Joycelyn Elders quotes: If you say children wouldn't know anything about masturbation on their own, you've never changed a little boy's diaper.

If you say children wouldn't know anything about masturbation on their own, you've never changed a little boy's diaper.

Joycelyn Elders quotes: I think we should have a very, very heavy tax on handguns and on bullets.

I think we should have a very, very heavy tax on handguns and on bullets.

Joycelyn Elders quotes: Black women have always found that in the social order of things we're the least likely to be believedby anyone.

Black women have always found that in the social order of things we're the least likely to be believed
by anyone.

Joycelyn Elders quotes: Marijuana is beneficial to many patients

Marijuana is beneficial to many patients

Joycelyn Elders quotes: The best contraceptive in the world is a good education.

The best contraceptive in the world is a good education.

Joycelyn Elders quotes: You can't educate a child who isn't healthy, and you can't keep a child healthy who isn't educated.

You can't educate a child who isn't healthy, and you can't keep a child healthy who isn't educated.

Joycelyn Elders quotes: I want every child that's born in the world to be planned and wanted.

I want every child that's born in the world to be planned and wanted.

Joycelyn Elders quotes: As a Christian, as an individual, as a doctor, I am absolutely opposed to the death penalty.

As a Christian, as an individual, as a doctor, I am absolutely opposed to the death penalty.

Joycelyn Elders quotes: Handguns are a public health issue.

Handguns are a public health issue.