If you can't control your reproduction, you can't control your life.

- Joycelyn Elders

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

- Joycelyn Elders

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 has to be a marriage between…

- Joycelyn Elders

Health is more than the absence of disease. Health is about jobs and employment, education, the environment, and all of those things that go into mak…

- Joycelyn Elders

We really need to get over this love affair with the fetus and start worrying about children.

- Joycelyn Elders

We know that more than seventy to eighty percent of women masturbate, and ninety percent of men masturbate, and the rest lie.

- Joycelyn Elders

Health is more than absence of disease; it is about economics, education, environment, empowerment, and community. The health and well being of the p…

- Joycelyn Elders

It is often easier for our children to obtain a gun than it is to find a good school.

- Joycelyn Elders

The best contraceptive in the world is a good education.

- Joycelyn Elders