Wilma Scott Heide Quotes

• Every social trait labelled masculine or feminine is in truth a human trait. It is our human right to develop and contribute our talents whatever our race, sex, religion, ancestry, age. Human rights are indivisible!

  Wilma Scott Heide

  Sex, Rights, Race

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• The hand that rocks the cradle should also rock the boat.

  Wilma Scott Heide

  Rocks, Hands, Boat

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• The pedestal is immobilizing and subtly insulting whether or not some women yet realize it. We must move up from the pedestal.

  Wilma Scott Heide

  Moving, Insulting, Pedestal

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• We will no longer be led only by that half of the population whose socialization, through toys, games, values and expectations, sanctions violence as the final assertion of manhood, synonymous with nationhood.

  Wilma Scott Heide

  Leadership, Women, Games

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• I do not refer to myself as a 'housewife' for the reason that I did not marry a house.

  Wilma Scott Heide

  Wife, House, Reason

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• Unless women have, from the moment of birth, socialization for, expectations of, and preparation for a viable significant alternative to motherhood . . . women will continue to want and reproduce too many children.

  Wilma Scott Heide

  Children, Motherhood, Expectations

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