Top 18 Calderone Quotes
#2. In Obama's case, we've enabled affirmative action to find a home in the nation's highest office. There you have it. I said it and I stand by it. America fell for the gimmick candidate, disregarding every fact and warning sign in the rush to have 'the first African-American president.'
Allen West
#3. I am no supporter of factory labor for children, but I have never joined with those who clamored against proper work of children on farms outside their school hours.
Herbert Hoover
#4. We have yet to beat our drums for birth control in the way we beat them for polio vaccine. We are still unable to put babies in the class of dangerous epidemics, even though this is the exact truth.
Mary Calderone
#5. Man seeks to learn, and man kills himself because of the loss of cohesion in his religious society; he does not kill himself because of his learning. It is certainly not the learning he acquires that disorganizes religion; but the desire for knowledge wakens because religion becomes disorganized.
Emile Durkheim
#6. I helped you help me, you helped me to help you, that's the way it must be or the very idea of help would be obsolete. I always thought that being helped was a loss of control, but you must allow someone to help you, you must want someone to help you, and only then can the act begin.
Cecelia Ahern
#7. I don't want to control anybody's mind or anybody's heart
I just want to help free people from the concert of sex as evil instead of a gift from God.
Mary Calderone
#8. If she screws up this delivery, that means she's double-crossing God, who may or may not exist, and in any case who is capable of forgiveness. The Mafia definitely exists and hews to a higher standard of obedience.
Neal Stephenson
#9. For centuries women have been saying many of the things we are saying today and which we have often thought of as new ...
Dale Spender
#10. I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the world and as there are days in the life of those people.
Mary Calderone
#11. The first concert I saw was Cheryl Wheeler.
Dar Williams
#12. Our life is all grounded and rooted in love, and without love we may not live.
Julian Of Norwich
#15. As a mentalist, perhaps only Orson Wells was in Jason's league. After a career in television, Randal has my endorsement. He's simply the best I've ever seen!
Merv Griffin
#16. Before the child ever gets to school it will have received crucial, almost irrevocable sex education and this will have been taught by the parents, who are not aware of what they are doing.
Mary Calderone
#17. We're still a sexophobic society, afraid of the wrong things for the wrong reasons.
Mary Calderone
#18. Our children are not going to be just 'our children' - they are going to be other people's husbands and wives and the parents of our grandchildren.
Mary Calderone