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“The hand that rocks the cradle should also rock the boat.”

Wilma Scott Heide Quote

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Wilma Louise Scott Heide was an American author, nurse, and social activist. Born in Ferndale, Pennsylvania, Heide trained as a registered nurse in psychiatry at Brooklyn State Hospital.

~ other have been sighted as using this quote and the original poem by William Ross Wallace that praises motherhood as the preeminent force for change ...

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This quote was also used in an OXFAM development poster series - and comes from the UN decade of women conference.

org poster was on a cream back ground with a brown and white image of an Afrian Woman addressing a meeting with her hand raised.

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Uploaded on July 11, 2024