Joycelyn Elders citations (12 citations)

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Joycelyn Elders: Citations en anglais

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

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"Dr. Joycelyn Elders is so fucking cool", 2007-06-04, Jessica Valenti, w:Jessica Valenti, 2014-05-23, Feministing.com http://web.archive.org/web/20070713094431/http://feministing.com/archives/007116.html,
Abstinence education

“We must stop this love affair with the fetus.”

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Speech in Austin, Texas, January 21, 1994
[Claudia, Dreifus, Joycelyn Elders, New York Times Magazine, p. 19, January 30, 1994, 2007-06-05]
Abortion

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

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On sex education
Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, "Abstinence" http://www.sho.com/site/video/player.do?video=/134/2006/abstinence&seriesid=134 [4.10], 5 June 2006

“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.”

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Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, "Abstinence" http://www.sho.com/site/video/player.do?video=/134/2006/abstinence&seriesid=134 [4.10], 5 June 2006

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

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"Dr. Joycelyn Elders is so fucking cool", 2014-05-23, Jessica Valenti, w:Jessica Valenti, 2014-05-23, Feministing.com http://web.archive.org/web/20070713094431/http://feministing.com/archives/007116.html,

“Handguns are a public health issue.”

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[Mimi, Hall, Elders makes assault on guns, USA Today, 9 November 1993, A5ff]

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

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Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, "Abstinence" http://www.sho.com/site/video/player.do?video=/134/2006/abstinence&seriesid=134 [4.10], 5 June 2006
Abstinence education

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

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“How do you get rid of the trash? It's out there in society, it's going on every day […] You can educate children an awful lot easier than you can get rid of the trash.”

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Source: [Bob, Sipchen, http://www.aegis.com/news/lt/1997/LT970701.html, Straight Talk From a Straight Shooter Journeys: Joycelyn Elders was known for her outspokenness during her run, Los Angeles Times, E-1, July 3, 1997, 2007-05-20]

“We know that more than 70 to 80% of women masturbate, and 90% of men masturbate, and the rest lie.”

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Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, "Abstinence" http://www.sho.com/site/video/player.do?video=/134/2006/abstinence&seriesid=134 [4.10], 5 June 2006
Masturbation

“They are boycotting common sense.”

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On politicians who promote abstinence-only education
"Dr. Joycelyn Elders is so fucking cool", 2007-06-04, Jessica Valenti, w:Jessica Valenti, 2014-05-23, Feministing.com http://web.archive.org/web/20070713094431/http://feministing.com/archives/007116.html,
Abstinence education