Latest Phyllis Schlafly Quotes from Interviews

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• It's time to cut off visas for foreign baseball players and return our national pastime to Americans.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Baseball, Cutting, Player

  "Conservative Activist Phyllis Schlafly Dies At 92". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. September 6, 2016.

• Politics was my hobby, and I really spent 25 years as a full-time homemaker. I tell the feminists the only person's permission I had to get was my husband's.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Husband, Years, Feminist

  "Phyllis Schlafly Still Championing The Anti-Feminist Fight". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. March 30, 2011.

• 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.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Home, Technology, Men

  "Phyllis Schlafly Still Championing The Anti-Feminist Fight". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. March 30, 2011.

• 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.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Baby, Husband, Rights

  "Phyllis Schlafly Still Championing The Anti-Feminist Fight". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. March 30, 2011.

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

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Believe, Equal Pay, Should

  Source: rutherford.org

• There are many choices out there for young women. And you have to ask yourself whether you want to model your life on the women who let life pass them by and who spend their lives thinking they were victims and that men are the enemy. Or do you want to have a happy life with a successful marriage and 14 lovely grandchildren. The choices are out there.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Successful, Happy Life, Grandchildren

  Source: rutherford.org

• 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.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Mother, Baby, Father

  Source: rutherford.org

• Some of our most successful businessmen in US grew up in orphanages. They were well treated, and they learned discipline. They learned right or wrong, and they have wonderful careers.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Successful, Careers, Discipline

  Source: rutherford.org

• The men sometimes do a better job of concealing their hate than the women. With the feminists, you can see it in their faces.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Jobs, Hate, Men

  Source: rutherford.org

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

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Men, Thinking, Institutions

  Source: rutherford.org

• 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.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Lying, Men, Class

  Source: rutherford.org

• If the woman picks the wrong man, that's not society's problem. That's her problem.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Men, Problem, Wrong Man

  Source: rutherford.org

• I urge young women to look ahead and see if they want to have a lonely old age or do they want to have what I have, which is the joy of 14 beautiful grandchildren.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Beautiful, Lonely, Grandchildren

  Source: rutherford.org

• The feminist movement has spent 30 years putting down the role of stay-at-home moms and trying to tell young women that only someone who is mentally disabled would pick that for a career.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Mom, Home, Years

  Source: rutherford.org

• 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.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Night, Men, Differences

  Source: rutherford.org

• Presidents don't have a whole lot to say about prosperity or the economy. Government cannot create prosperity. There are a lot of other factors that determine whether there are good times or bad times.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Government, President, Good Times

  Source: rutherford.org