Famous quotes containing the words health and/or risk:
“...I am who I am because Im a black female.... When I was health director in Arkansas ... I could talk about teen-age pregnancy, about poverty, ignorance and enslavement and how the white power structure had imposed itonly because I was a black female. I mean, black people would have eaten up a white male who said what I did.”
—Joycelyn Elders (b. 1933)
“Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything its cracked up to be. Thats why people are so cynical about it.... It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you dont risk anything, you risk even more.”
—Erica Jong (b. 1942)