Wilma Scott Heide famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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 #Race #Rights
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
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 #Games #Expectations
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
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
The hand that rocks the cradle should also rock the boat.
-- Wilma Scott Heide

#Hands #Rocks #Boat

If you don't have sex and you don't do drugs, your rock 'n' roll better be awfully good.
Screw guilt -- I could have sex with 10 men and it wouldn't bother me. I'm an atheist!
When a clandestine couple kisses, it is much more likely that sex will immediately follow. This is because there is much more risk. Once you have kissed secretly, it is very difficult not to have sex. It would be impolite not to have sex. You have to show that you are serious about each other.
Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die... Still you wait and will not try - A bird with wings who dares not rise and fly.
Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what's inside of all of us. If we X-rayed the insides of different human beings, we wouldn't be able to tell from those X-rays what the person's language or background or race is.
Usually when you ask somebody in college why they are there, they'll tell you it's to get an education. The truth of it is, they are there to get the degree so that they can get ahead in the rat race. Too many college radicals are two-timing punks. The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
I believe that the only way that the human race is gonna survive is to start colonizing space and setting up colonies on the moon, and then space stations.
I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.

Wilma Scott Heide famous quotes

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