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."

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

"We must stop this love affair with the fetus."

"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."

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

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

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

"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."