Mary Calderone Quotes

United States, Physician
July 1, 1904 – October, 24, 1998.

Mary Steichen Calderone (July 1, 1904 – October 24, 1998) was a physician and a public health advocate for sexual education. Her most notable feat was overturning the American Medical Association policy against the dissemination of birth control information to patients.

Also known as Advocate

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
- People
- Life
- World
We're still a sexophobic society, afraid of the wrong things for the wrong reasons.

Mary Calderone
- Society
- Reason
- Wrong

Abortion is the taking of a life.

Mary Calderone
- Life
- Abortion
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
- School
- Parents
- Education
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
- People
- Children
- Parents
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
- People
- God
- Mind
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
- Truth
- Control
- Epidemics
Our children are not going to be just "our children".

Mary Calderone
- Children