Best 76 quotes of Phyllis Schlafly on MyQuotes

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

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.

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.

Any judge who allows an adulterer with a live-in girlfriend to terminate the life of his wife should be impeached.

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.

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.

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

Bite us once, shame on the dog; bite us repeatedly, shame on us for allowing it.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Forcing women in or near land combat will hurt recruiting, not help.

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?

[I am] confident that Congress will pass the Kennedy-Hatch KidCare bill, a first step toward the single-payer socialized medicine system that the NEA [National Education Association] has endorsed for years.

I believe the public schools are the greatest cultural influence in this country.

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

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

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

In a world of inhumanity, war and terrorism, American citizenship is a very precious possession.

In colleges, there are no gender separations in courses of study, and students can freely choose their majors. There are no male and female math classes. But women generally choose college courses that pay less in the labor market. Those are the choices that women themselves make. Those choices contribute to the pay gap.

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

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.

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

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).

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.

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

Marriage is like pantyhose. It all depends on what you put into it.

Many professors are Marxists or other varieties of radicals who hate America.

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.

Memorizing, guessing, looking at pictures, predicting, substituting, and skipping, are not reading; they are very bad habits.

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

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

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

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

No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq war.

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

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

Now that judges embrace forcibly starving someone to death, Congress should use its appropriation power to starve the judicial budget.

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. . . .

Our public school system is our country's biggest and most inefficient monopoly, yet it keeps demanding more and more money.

Our runaway judiciary is badly in need of restraint by Congress.

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

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.

[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.

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.