We really need to get over this love affair with the fetus and start worrying about children. — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share Image
I want every child that's born in the world to be planned and wanted. — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share Image
You can't educate a child who isn't healthy, and you can't keep a child healthy who isn't educated. — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share Image
If you say children wouldn't know anything about masturbation on their own, you've never changed a little boy's diaper. — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share Image
I'm against abstinence programs because I really consider "abstinence only" child abuse. — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share Image
It is often easier for our children to obtain a gun than it is to find a good school. — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share Image
Given a choice between hearing my daughter say "I'm pregnant" or "I used a condom", most mothers would get up in the… — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share Image
How do you get rid of the trash? It's out there in society, it's going on every day. You can educate children… — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share Image
We know that there are several predisposing factors to gun violence: poverty, lack of education, lack of good parenting, lack of jobs,… — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share Image
I feel that we can't educate children who are not healthy, and we can't keep them healthy if they're not educated. There… — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share Image
... if you're poor and ignorant, with a child, you're a slave. Meaning that you're never going to get out of it.… — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share Image
Once I had a professor say to me, "You know you have as much education as a lot of white people." I answered, "Doctor,… — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share
[On masturbation:] I think that it is part of human sexuality, and perhaps it should be taught. — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share
I think we should have a very, very heavy tax on handguns and on bullets. — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share
“We have a multiheaded dragon in our midst that for too long has been waging a domestic war on our young, our poor, our… — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share
... black women have always found that in the social order of things we're the least likely to be believed--by anyone. — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share
[We must] deal with all of the contributing factors to gun violence as a whole, because it's like a leaky bucket - if you've… — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share
You can't educate people that are not healthy. But you certainly can't keep them healthy if they're not educated. — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share
As long as I was in Washington I never met anybody that I thought was good enough, who knew enough, or who loved enough… — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share
Health is more than the absence of disease. Health is about jobs and employment, education, the environment, and all of those things that go… — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share
Health is more than absence of disease; it is about economics, education, environment, empowerment, and community. The health and well being of the people… — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share
