Top 120 Quotes & Sayings by Phyllis Schlafly

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American activist Phyllis Schlafly.
Last updated on November 21, 2024.
Phyllis Schlafly

Phyllis Stewart Schlafly was an American attorney, activist, and author. She held paleoconservative social and political views, opposed liberal feminism, gay rights and abortion, and successfully campaigned against ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. She was opposed in turn by moderates and liberals for her attitudes on sex, gender roles, homosexuality, and a number of other issues.

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.
People think that child-support enforcement benefits children, but it doesn't.
Putting women in military combat is the cutting edge of the feminist goal to force us into an androgynous society. — © Phyllis Schlafly
Putting women in military combat is the cutting edge of the feminist goal to force us into an androgynous society.
Feminism has changed the way women think, and it has changed the way men think, but the trouble is, it hasn't changed the attitudes of babies at all.
Our public school system is our country's biggest and most inefficient monopoly, yet it keeps demanding more and more money.
A lot of people don't understand what feminism is. They think it is about advance and success for women, but it's not that at all. It is about power for the female left. And they have this, I think, ridiculous idea that American women are oppressed by the patriarchy and we need laws and government to solve our problems for us.
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.
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.
The worst censors are those prohibiting criticism of the theory of evolution in the classroom.
After Big Media, U.S. colleges and universities are the biggest enemies of the values of red-state Americans.
Birth on U.S. territory has never been an absolute claim to citizenship.
Men should stop treating feminists like ladies, and instead treat them like the men they say they want to be.
It is a mystery why any Americans would support the concept of the EU. — © Phyllis Schlafly
It is a mystery why any Americans would support the concept of the EU.
In politics, it's more fun to win than it is to lose.
It is long overdue for parents to realize they have the right and duty to protect our children against the intolerant evolutionists.
The European nations' loss of sovereignty to the EU should be a warning to Americans.
Now that judges embrace forcibly starving someone to death, Congress should use its appropriation power to starve the judicial budget.
The cornerstone of the political correctness that dominates campus culture is radical feminism.
What you learn from my life is, first of all, that anybody can be a leader. You can be a leader. I wasn't born that way - I developed it, I worked at it. And also that the grassroots can organize and take on all the powers that be and defeat them. That is the lesson.
In a world of inhumanity, war and terrorism, American citizenship is a very precious possession.
Our runaway judiciary is badly in need of restraint by Congress.
I simply didn't believe we needed a constitutional amendment to protect women's rights. I knew of only one law that was discriminatory toward women, a law in North Dakota stipulating that a wife had to have her husband's permission to make wine.
Any judge who allows an adulterer with a live-in girlfriend to terminate the life of his wife should be impeached.
Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.
No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq war.
Sexual harassment on the job is not a problem for virtuous women.
Feminists don't honor successful women. You never hear them talking about Margaret Thatcher. Take Condoleezza Rice. She's a remarkable, successful woman. You don't hear the feminists talk about her or Carly Fiorina or Jeanne Kirkpatrick.
How can we protect homeland security unless the government stops the invasion of illegal aliens?
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.
Remember, those that wait upon the Lord will rise up with wings like eagles, and they will run and not be weary. And don't you ever be weary, because the battle goes on, year after year, and we need all of you young people to join us in the battle.
If we don't stop immigration - this torrent of immigrants coming in - we're not going to be America anymore because most of the people coming in have no experience with limited government. They don't know what that is.
I think the main goal of the feminist movement was the status degradation of the full-time homemaker. They really wanted to get all women out of the homes and into the workforce. And again and again, they taught that the only fulfilling lifestyle was to be in the workforce reporting to a boss instead of being in the home reporting to a husband.
The most frequent complaint I hear from college students is that professors inject their leftist political comments into their courses even when they have nothing to do with the subject.
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.
Highly placed New York kingmakers work toward 'convergence' between the Republican and Democratic parties so as to preserve their 'America Last' foreign policy and eliminate foreign policy from political campaigns.
The real fight is within the Republican Party to get it to nominate grassroots-type candidates who the public wants, and not just some 'echo' of the other side.
I would not want to be called a feminist. The feminists don't believe in success for women and, of course, I believe that American women are the most fortunate people who ever lived on the face of the earth, can do anything they make up their minds to do.
Much of the demand for women in combat comes from female officers who are eager for medals and promotions. — © Phyllis Schlafly
Much of the demand for women in combat comes from female officers who are eager for medals and promotions.
National Standards was not a narrative of past events but was leftwing revisionism and Political Correctness.
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.
I believe that the worst thing the liberals did in this country was the Lyndon Johnson welfare system, which broke up millions of marriages by funneling taxpayers' money solely to the woman. That made the father and husband irrelevant.
I think the Con-Con issue is really diversionary. I've always been against Con-Con, from the very first the time the idea was raised. Everybody knows that.
One of the favorite tricks of the Democrats is to try to get the Republicans to pass over their strongest candidate and nominate instead a candidate who will be easy to beat.
Anyone with a child knows that children learn about the world through binary options: up or down, hot or cold, big or little, inside or outside, wet or dry, good or bad, boy or girl, man or woman.
The feminist movement is not about success for women. It is about treating women as victims and about telling women that you can't succeed because society is unfair to you, and I think that's a very unfortunate idea to put in the minds of young women because I believe women can do whatever they want.
Sex education classes are like in-home sales parties for abortions.
Bite us once, shame on the dog; bite us repeatedly, shame on us for allowing it.
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.
Becoming a resident of a state may confer the right to get a driver's license, but it does not and should not confer citizenship. — © Phyllis Schlafly
Becoming a resident of a state may confer the right to get a driver's license, but it does not and should not confer citizenship.
When it comes to determining child custody, however, sexism is the rule.
There are thousands of Ten Commandments plaques or monuments all over the country, and lawsuits to remove them have popped up in more than a dozen states.
Forcing women in or near land combat will hurt recruiting, not help.
Many professors are Marxists or other varieties of radicals who hate America.
When I had a baby, I didn't leave the second floor for six months. I nursed my babies. I was a full-time homemaker. I taught them all how to read before I let them go to school. So I gave them that care in the early life that somehow feminists have been led to believe is demeaning and is not worth the time of an educated woman.
It's not the physical location of birth that defines citizenship, but whether your parents are citizens, and the express or implied consent to jurisdiction of the sovereign.
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.
ERA means abortion funding, means homosexual privileges, means whatever else.
The United States is a giant island of freedom, achievement, wealth and prosperity in a world hostile to our values.
Location is the key to most businesses, and the entrepreneurs typically build their reputation at a particular spot.
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.
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