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Condoms will break, but I can assure you that vows of abstinence will break more easily than condoms.
— Joycelyn Elders
We really need to get over this love affair with the fetus and start worrying about children.
— Joycelyn Elders
We've tried ignorance for a thousand years. It's time we try education.
— Joycelyn Elders
But I'm saying we are loosing the people who are going to pay my social security. And that bothers me.
— Joycelyn Elders
You can't keep an ignorant population healthy.
— Joycelyn Elders
[On masturbation:] I think that it is part of human sexuality, and perhaps it should be taught.
— Joycelyn Elders
We know that more than seventy to eighty percent of women masturbate, and ninety percent of men masturbate, and the rest lie.
— Joycelyn Elders
Guns kill more teenagers than the other big killers - heart disease, cancer, and AIDS - combined.
— Joycelyn Elders
I'm against abstinence programs because I really consider "abstinence only" child abuse.
— Joycelyn Elders
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
You can't educate people that are not healthy. But you certainly can't keep them healthy if they're not educated.
— Joycelyn Elders
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
It is often easier for our children to obtain a gun than it is to find a good school.
— Joycelyn Elders
If you can't control your reproduction, you can't control your life.
— Joycelyn Elders
If you say children wouldn't know anything about masturbation on their own, you've never changed a little boy's diaper.
— Joycelyn Elders
When the surgeon general [Joycelyn Elders] said that drugs should be legalized, I saw somebody else who felt what I feel. But she got fired.
— Snoop Dogg
Black women have always found that in the social order of things we're the least likely to be believed
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by anyone. — Joycelyn Elders
Marijuana is beneficial to many patients
— Joycelyn Elders
The best contraceptive in the world is a good education.
— Joycelyn Elders
You can't educate a child who isn't healthy, and you can't keep a child healthy who isn't educated.
— Joycelyn Elders
I want every child that's born in the world to be planned and wanted.
— Joycelyn Elders
As a Christian, as an individual, as a doctor, I am absolutely opposed to the death penalty.
— Joycelyn Elders
Handguns are a public health issue.
— Joycelyn Elders