Calderone Quotes & Sayings

I'm looking for things that are really connected - education, both in the developing world and at home. The way that that affects communities and, in particular, women. — Sophia Bush

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

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

I think you can do science fiction, but you have to ground it in some realism. People need to identify with the characters, with their plights and their issues. — Faran Tahir

During the settling of the American colonies, it was said that the Spaniards would first build a church, the Dutch would first build a fort and the English a tavern. Welcome to Charleston, an English colony founded in 1670. — Mark R. Jones

Abortion is the taking of a life. — Mary Calderone

If we are going to live as disciples of Jesus, we have to remember that all noble things are difficult. The Christian life is gloriously difficult, but the difficulty of it does not make us faint and cave in, it rouses us up to overcome. — Oswald Chambers

Chaos is an excuse for people who don't have the patience to see the patterns. — Shaun David Hutchinson

Whipping your hair means not being afraid to be yourself. — Willow Smith

Even the best psychiatrist is like a blindfolded auto mechanic poking around under your hood with a giant foam "We're #1" finger. — Dennis Miller

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

You cannot tell whether a person is good or bad by his vicissitudes in life. Good and bad fortune are matters of fate. — Yamamoto Tsunetomo

If I were a bottle of wine, my name would be Thom Cork — Thom Yorke

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

My favorite animal in the park is the grizzly, icnonic, graceful, and with eyes that seem to know, and what they know is sad. — Danielle Rohr

The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it — Mark Twain

The ant is a collectively intelligent and individually stupid animal; man is the opposite. — Karl Von Frisch

When people feel their insignificance as individual persons, they also suffer an undermining of their sense of human responsibility. — Rollo May

The fact-finding mission was now the traditional Washington substitute for policy. — Barbara W. Tuchman

X, n. In our alphabet being a needless letter has an added invincibility to the attacks of the spelling reformers, and like them, will doubtless last as long as the language. — Ambrose Bierce

We're still a sexophobic society, afraid of the wrong things for the wrong reasons. — Mary Calderone

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