Phyllis Schlafly
Phyllis Schlafly
Phyllis McAlpin Stewart Schlaflyis a semi-retired American constitutional lawyer, conservative activist, author, and speaker and founder of the Eagle Forum. She is known for her staunch social and political views, her opposition to modern feminism, and her successful campaign against the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Her 1964 book A Choice, Not an Echo sold more than three million copies as a push-back against liberal Republican leader Nelson Rockefeller and the powerful Eastern Republican Establishment...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth15 August 1924
CitySt. Louis, MO
CountryUnited States of America
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.
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.
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.
If home is to have a greater lure than a tavern the wife must be at least as cheerful as the waitress.
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.
The battle has been fought at Republican National Conventions over a long time. It's a done deal for the Republican Party.
Not much. I don't think Giuliani or Pataki will resonate with grass-roots Republicans or Midwest Republicans. They are SO New York.
The voters are beginning to flex their muscles on cultural and patriotic issues.
We will not stand activist judges who legislate from the bench, who remake our culture. ... We will not tolerate judges who change the rules of our written Constitution. You, the American people, play a big part on how to deal with these out-of-control judges. ... The answer is in your hands.
We expected President Bush to appoint a woman with the opposite judicial philosophy and paper trail of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Our disappointment is acute.
Driver's licenses are a crucial national security issue.
Birth on U.S. territory has never been an absolute claim to citizenship.
What are they going to do so people can hear? ... I was here last month for five hours and didn't hear one-third of what was said.
Do you ever wonder why the internet is so polluted with pornography? The Supreme Court just reminded us why: it blocks every attempt by Congress to regulate the pornographers.