85+ Phyllis Schlafly Quotes On Education, Freedom And Women's Rights

Phyllis Schlafly was an American lawyer, conservative activist, and author. She was best known for her opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s and 80s and for her strong conservative views on social issues. Schlafly was a prolific author who wrote books on a variety of topics, including the role of women in society and the political power of the Christian right. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Phyllis Schlafly on education, freedom, women's rights.

Top 10 Phyllis Schlafly Quotes

1. 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.
2. The atomic bomb is a marvelous gift that was given to our country by a wise God.
3. Sexual harassment on the job is not a problem for virtuous women.
4. Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.
5. It is long overdue for parents to realize they have the right and duty to protect our children against the intolerant evolutionists.
6. ERA means abortion funding, means homosexual privileges, means whatever else.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. After Big Media, U.S. colleges and universities are the biggest enemies of the values of red-state Americans.
10. The feminist movement taught women to see themselves as victims of an oppressive patriarchy. ... Self-imposed victimhood is not a recipe for happiness.

Phyllis Schlafly Short Quotes

• I don't believe that everybody should be paid the same. I believe in equal pay for equal work.
• The worst censors are those prohibiting criticism of the theory of evolution in the classroom.
• The claim that American women are downtrodden and unfairly treated is the fraud of the century.
• People think that child-support enforcement benefits children, but it doesn't.
• Marriage is like pantyhose. It all depends on what you put into it.
• Our runaway judiciary is badly in need of restraint by Congress.
• When it comes to determining child custody, however, sexism is the rule.
• Many professors are Marxists or other varieties of radicals who hate America.
• Bite us once, shame on the dog; bite us repeatedly, shame on us for allowing it.
• If the woman picks the wrong man, that's not society's problem. That's her problem.

Phyllis Schlafly Quotes About Education

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

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. — Phyllis Schlafly

[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. — Phyllis Schlafly

What masquerades as sex education is not education at all. It is selective propaganda which artificially encourages children to participate in adult sex, while it censors out the facts of life about the unhappy consequences. It is robbing children of their childhood. — Phyllis Schlafly

Phyllis Schlafly Quotes About Combat

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

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. — Phyllis Schlafly

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

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. — Phyllis Schlafly

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

Phyllis Schlafly Quotes About States

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

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

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. — 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. — Phyllis Schlafly

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

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. — Phyllis Schlafly

Phyllis Schlafly Quotes About Citizenship

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

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

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. — Phyllis Schlafly

Phyllis Schlafly Quotes About Protect

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. — Phyllis Schlafly

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

The justices have constitutionally protected obscenity in libraries, filth over cable television, and now unlimited internet pornography. — Phyllis Schlafly

Phyllis Schlafly Quotes About Political

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

The urgent need today is to develop and support leaders on every level of government who are independent of the bossism of every political machine - the big-city machine, the liberal Democrat machine, and the Republican kingmaker machine. — Phyllis Schlafly

The cornerstone of the political correctness that dominates campus culture is radical feminism. — Phyllis Schlafly

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

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. — Phyllis Schlafly

Phyllis Schlafly Famous Quotes And Sayings

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). — Phyllis Schlafly

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

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. — Phyllis Schlafly

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. — Phyllis Schlafly

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. — Phyllis Schlafly

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

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. — Phyllis Schlafly

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

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

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

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

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

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. — Phyllis Schlafly

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

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

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

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

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

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. . . . — Phyllis Schlafly

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. — Phyllis Schlafly

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

One solution might be to impose the duty on admissions officers to arbitrarily admit only half women and half men. — Phyllis Schlafly

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

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

The European nations' loss of sovereignty to the EU should be a warning to Americans. — Phyllis Schlafly

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

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. — Phyllis Schlafly

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. — Phyllis Schlafly

It is a mystery why any Americans would support the concept of the EU. — Phyllis Schlafly

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. — Phyllis Schlafly

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

[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. — Phyllis Schlafly

Life Lessons by Phyllis Schlafly

1. Phyllis Schlafly taught us to never give up in the face of adversity, to stand up for what we believe in, and to fight for our rights.
2. She also showed us that it is possible to make a difference and to have a positive impact on society, even if it means going against the grain.
3. Lastly, she demonstrated the power of knowledge and education, and how it can be used to make a lasting impact on the world.