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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.
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We've tried ignorance for a thousand years. It's time we try education.
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I'm against abstinence programs because I really consider "abstinence only" child abuse.
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If you can't control your reproduction, you can't control your life.
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I want every child that's born in the world to be planned and wanted.
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We know that more than 70 to 80% of women masturbate, and 90% of men masturbate, and the rest lie.
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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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Condoms will break, but I can assure you that vows of abstinence will break more easily than condoms.
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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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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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We really need to get over this love affair with the fetus and start worrying about children.
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If I could be the "condom queen" and get every young person who is engaged in sex to use a condom in the United States, I would wear a crown on my head with a condom on it!
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In regard to masturbation, I think that it is something that is a part of human sexuality and it's a part of something that perhaps should be taught. But we've not even taught our children the very basics. And I feel we have tried ignorance for a very long time and it's time we try education.
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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
John Dewey
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August 13, 1933
(age 91)
Bio:
Minnie Joycelyn Elders is an American pediatrician and public health administrator. She was a vice admiral in the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and the first African American appointed as Surgeon General of the United States.
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