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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
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Joycelyn Elders
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: August 13
Former Surgeon General Of The United States
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Once I had a professor say to me, You know you have as much education as a lot of white people. I answered, Doctor, I have more education than most white people.
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Condoms will break, but I can assure you that vows of abstinence will break more easily than condoms.
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But I'm saying we are loosing the people who are going to pay my social security. And that bothers me.
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We know that there are several predisposing factors to gun violence: poverty, lack of education, lack of good parenting, lack of jobs, living in an environment where violence is seen every day, all the time. And children being born to children are likely to have all of these predisposing factors.
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Gun owners would have to be evaluated by how they scored on written and firing tests, and have to pass the tests in order to own a gun. And I would tax the guns, bullets and the license itself very heavily.
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I want every child that's born in the world to be planned and wanted.
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Given a choice between hearing my daughter say I'm pregnant or I used a condom, most mothers would get up in the middle of the night and buy them herself.
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[On masturbation:] I think that it is part of human sexuality, and perhaps it should be taught.
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Marijuana is beneficial to many patients
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... black women have always found that in the social order of things we're the least likely to be believed--by anyone.
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[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 got a bucket with six holes shot through it, [and] you plug up five, you've still got a leaky bucket.
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Handguns are a public health issue.
Joycelyn Elders
If I could be the condom queen and get every young person who engaged in sex to use a condom in the United States, I would weara crown on my head with a condom on it! I would!
Joycelyn Elders
My biggest challenge is to educate the American people, to make access to health care available for all, and to make sure that prevention plays a big part in health care. In the case of guns, prevention means we prevent homicides and devastating, expensive gun injuries by preventing those who shouldn't have guns from getting their hands on guns.
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Guns kill more teenagers than the other big killers - heart disease, cancer, and AIDS - combined.
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You can't keep an ignorant population healthy.
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As long as I was in Washington I never met anybody that I thought was good enough, who knew enough, or who loved enough to make sexual decisions for anybody else.
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
You can't educate people that are not healthy. But you certainly can't keep them healthy if they're not educated.
Joycelyn Elders
I always say my God will take care of me. If it's my time I'll go, and if it's not I won't. I feel that He really has a lot of important things for me to do. And He's going to make sure that I'm here to do them.
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