Phyllis Schlafly liked to say that she had it all, just not all at once. She was hated by many and loved by many. Feminists called her a traitor to her sex and the worst kind of hypocrite. Conservatives called her a modern heroine and an unstoppable force. She wasn’t a TV villain with a …
Candidate Donald Trump and his wife Melania briefly pause his presidential campaign to attend the funeral of Phyllis Schlafly. On the day after her death, her last book was published. It was entitled The Conservative Case for Trump.
This pictures shows Phyllis and Fred Schlafly on their wedding day. Fred’s sister Eleanor warned him not to pack books on mathematics for the honeymoon because she said it would insult Phyllis. As it turned out, Phyllis had stuffed her own suitcase with books on politics and economics. As Eleanor later recalled, “I knew it …
Phyllis Schlafly believed that the American woman could be anything she wanted to be. Phyllis never held other women back, and she never let anyone hold her back.
Phyllis Schlafly considered herself to be a full-time homemaker first and foremost. She never took a paycheck for her political efforts. To her, that was a hobby.
Phyllis Schlafly encouraged other women to become a powerful voice in the policy-making process. She empowered them to fight for the issues they cared about.
