Top 60 Phyllis Schlafly Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “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

2. “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

3. “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

4. “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

5. “The claim that American women are downtrodden and unfairly treated is the fraud of the century.”

— Phyllis Schlafly

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

— Phyllis Schlafly

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

— Phyllis Schlafly

8. “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

9. “If the woman picks the wrong man, that’s not society’s problem. That’s her problem.”

— Phyllis Schlafly

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

— Phyllis Schlafly

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

— Phyllis Schlafly

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

— Phyllis Schlafly

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

— Phyllis Schlafly

14. “The atomic bomb is a marvelous gift that was given to our country by a wise God.”

— Phyllis Schlafly

15. “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.”

— Phyllis Schlafly

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

— Phyllis Schlafly

17. “Putting women in military combat is the cutting edge of the feminist goal to force us into an androgynous society.”

— Phyllis Schlafly

18. “Sexual harassment on the job is not a problem for virtuous women.”

— Phyllis Schlafly

19. “I don’t believe that everybody should be paid the same. I believe in equal pay for equal work.”

— Phyllis Schlafly

20. “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

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

— Phyllis Schlafly

22. “People think that child-support enforcement benefits children, but it doesn’t.”

— Phyllis Schlafly

23. “The American nuclear family made America great, but few are now defending it against forces determined to destroy it. If America continues to have many immigrants with different family types, we are less likely to maintain American values of personal freedom, individualism, and limited government.”

— Phyllis Schlafly

24. “How can we protect homeland security unless the government stops the invasion of illegal aliens?”

— Phyllis Schlafly

25. “When it comes to determining child custody, however, sexism is the rule.”

— Phyllis Schlafly

26. “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

27. “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

28. “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.”

— Phyllis Schlafly

29. “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

30. “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

31. “The cornerstone of the political correctness that dominates campus culture is radical feminism.”

— Phyllis Schlafly

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

— Phyllis Schlafly

33. “The United States is a giant island of freedom, achievement, wealth and prosperity in a world hostile to our values.”

— Phyllis Schlafly

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

— Phyllis Schlafly

35. “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

36. “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

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

— Phyllis Schlafly

38. “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.”

— Phyllis Schlafly

39. “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

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

— Phyllis Schlafly

41. “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

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

— Phyllis Schlafly

43. “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

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

— Phyllis Schlafly

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

— Phyllis Schlafly

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

— Phyllis Schlafly

47. “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

48. “The justices have constitutionally protected obscenity in libraries, filth over cable television, and now unlimited internet pornography.”

— Phyllis Schlafly

49. “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

50. “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