Phyllis Schlafly Quotes

The best way to improve economic prospects for women is to improve job prospects for the men in their lives, even if that means increasing the so-called pay gap.

Feminism has nothing at all to do with being 'feminine.' Feminine means accentuating the womanly attributes that make women deliciously different from men. The feminine woman enjoys her right to be a woman. She has a positive outlook on life. She knows she is a person with her own identity and that she can seek fulfillment in the career of her choice, including that of traditional wife and mother.

The atomic bomb is a marvelous gift that was given to our country by a wise God.

Sexual harassment on the job is not a problem for virtuous women.

Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.

It's very healthy for a young girl to be deterred from promiscuity by fear of contracting a painful, incurable disease, or cervical cancer, or sterility, or the likelihood of giving birth to a dead, blind or brain-damaged baby (even ten years later when she may be happily married).

Women have babies and men provide the support. If you don't like the way we're made you've got to take it up with God.

Feminists have convinced themselves that any difference between men and women is oppression and that women in the United States are an oppressed minority. This is such a lie. American women are the most fortunate class of people who ever lived on the face of the earth.

It is long overdue for parents to realize they have the right and duty to protect our children against the intolerant evolutionists.

If home is to have a greater lure than a tavern the wife must be at least as cheerful as the waitress.

ERA means abortion funding, means homosexual privileges, means whatever else.

Many years ago Christian pioneers had to fight savage Indians. Today missionaries of these former cultures are being sent via the public schools to heathenize our children.

The people the Republicans should reach out to are the white votes, the white voters who didn't vote in the last election. The propagandists are leading us down the wrong path.

What I am defending is the real rights of women. A woman should have the right to be in the home as a wife and mother.

After Big Media, U.S. colleges and universities are the biggest enemies of the values of red-state Americans.

The feminist movement taught women to see themselves as victims of an oppressive patriarchy. ... Self-imposed victimhood is not a recipe for happiness.

I think that when you get married you have consented to sex. That's what marriage is all about, I don't know if maybe these girls missed sex ed.

National Standards was not a narrative of past events but was leftwing revisionism and Political Correctness.

I don't believe that everybody should be paid the same. I believe in equal pay for equal work.

One of the things Obama's been doing is deliberately trying to increase the percentage of our population that is dependent on government for their living. For example, do you know what was the second-biggest demographic group that voted for Obama? . . . Unmarried women. Seventy percent of unmarried women voted for Obama. And this is because, when you kick your husband out, you've got to have Big Brother government to be your provider. . . .

[President-elect George W] Bush has reached out to these other groups like Blacks and Hispanics.... He ought to do his reaching out to the people who elected him.

Men should stop treating feminists like ladies, and instead treat them like the men they say they want to be.

American women are so fortunate. When I got married, all I wanted in the world was a dryer so I didn't have to hang up my diapers. And now women have paper diapers and all sorts of conveniences in the home. And it is the man and the technology that has made the home such a pleasant place for women to be.

Find out if your girlfriend is a feminist before you get too far into it. Some of them are pretty. They don't all look like Bella Abzug.

The most dangerous area where our laws are not being faithfully executed are the laws designed to protect Americans against the millions of aliens who enter our country illegally every year.

Sex education classes are like in-home sales parties for abortions.

Since the women are the ones who bear the babies and there's nothing we can do about that, our laws and customs then make it the financial obligation of the husband to provide the support. It is his obligation and his sole obligation. And this is exactly and precisely what we will lose if the Equal Rights Amendment is passed.

When will American men learn how to stand up to the nagging by the intolerant, uncivil feminists whose sport is to humiliate men?

There are a lot of very fine upstanding gays who are good citizens and all that. I am not making a decision for individual people. But when it comes to a societal policy, I think there are not enough babies for adoption to go around. I think a preference should be given to families with a mother and father who have a lifetime commitment.

Nothing about contraception should be taught in schools. There is no question that it will encourage sexual activity.

Non-criminal sexual harassment on the job is not a problem for the virtuous woman except in the rarest of cases.

Putting women in military combat is the cutting edge of the feminist goal to force us into an androgynous society.

My analysis is that the gays are about 5% of the attack on marriage in this country, and the feminists are about 95%.

The feminists are trying to tell women that there is really no difference between them and men. Just as men can be promiscuous, women can, too, and go for one night stands without consequences. But there are consequences. The women have the suffering of the abortion. They suffer more with the social diseases.

The persistent advocates of contraceptive-style sex education have become more and more resourceful in using taxpayer funds to impose their casual-sex attitudes and explicit-sex instruction on other people's children.

History offers no evidence for the proposition that the assignment of women to military combat jobs is the way to win wars, improve combat readiness, or promote national security.

How can we protect homeland security unless the government stops the invasion of illegal aliens?

Birth on U.S. territory has never been an absolute claim to citizenship.

The worst censors are those prohibiting criticism of the theory of evolution in the classroom.

Location is the key to most businesses, and the entrepreneurs typically build their reputation at a particular spot.

The United States is a giant island of freedom, achievement, wealth and prosperity in a world hostile to our values.

The advance planning and sense stimuli employed to capture a $10 million cigarette or soap market are nothing compared to the brainwashing and propaganda blitzes used to ensure control of the largest cash market in the world: the Executive Branch of the United States Government.

Every country that has experimented with women in actual combat has abandoned the idea, and the notion that Israel uses women in combat is a feminist myth.

Much of the demand for women in combat comes from female officers who are eager for medals and promotions.

Congress should pass legislation to remove from the federal courts their jurisdiction to hear these outrageous challenges to the Ten Commandments and the Pledge of Allegiance.

And the first commandment of feminism is: I am woman; thou shalt not tolerate strange gods who assert that women have capabilities or often choose roles that are different from men's.

The claim that American women are downtrodden and unfairly treated is the fraud of the century.

I think society is entitled to recognize marriage as an institution that involves one man and one woman.

Big Brother is on the march. A plan to subject all children to mental health screening is underway, and the pharmaceuticals are gearing up for bigger sales of psychotropic drugs.

People think that child-support enforcement benefits children, but it doesn't.