I snapped this photo of the elegant Phyllis Schlafly after her book signing, and she was kind enough to answer a few questions. I will transcribe the interview and post. I asked her if she liked blogs (she likes them) and a little about her life. I knew she’d raised a family before going to law school, writing books and exploding onto the national scene.
She’s also an outspoken critic of radical feminism and almost singlehandedly crushed the Equal Rights Amendment back in the 1970s. She also founded Eagle Forum. Read her fascinating biography.
An excerpt of Schlafly’s latest column, Feminists On The Warpath Get Their Man :
The feminists, who have no sense of humor, have given Americans a big belly laugh, but it’s no laughing matter to the principals involved. The feminists lassoed the president of Harvard University, no less, and have dragged him groveling through the ivy until they wrung from him all they wanted and more.The most intolerant feminists are on the faculties of elite colleges and universities. The Communists used to severely punish as “deviationists” all those who strayed from the Party line, but the feminists have taken adherence to orthodoxy to new heights.
It didn’t save President Lawrence Summers that he was Bill Clinton’s Secretary of the Treasury. Summers thought he was chatting off the record with intellectuals who had the maturity to engage in a little light banter combined with a provocative suggestion for academic research or possibly a new Ph.D. dissertation.
He was wrong. To the liberals, some subjects are not only non-debatable, they are non-researchable because they think they already know the answers and they don’t want to be confused by the facts.
The cornerstone of the political correctness that dominates campus culture is radical feminism. 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.
Ann Coulter wrote at least two columns about Schlafly. Read Call Her Mrs.
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She raised a family? I heard she had a nanny.
I’ve always liked her; but we haven’t seen, or heard, much from her lately.
Wow, she went to law school? I never knew that. I always thought she was just an everyday housewife who protested the system.
Knowing, now, that she has all this education behind her only increases my respect.
I hope she keeps writing.
It’s axiomatic feminist dogma. You can raise a great family and have a great career with or without a “nanny” or as I call them, day care providers who come to your house.
Phyllis was 40 when she made her mark. It gives me hope!
Hey, I use a nanny for our 4 kids. What’s wrong with that if it gives my wife breathing space as a housewife? Way I look at it, I work 40-50 hrs/week, why shouldn’t she get to work 40hrs/week and let the nanny pick up the rest? Moreso, if it gives time for the stay-at-home to keep current or learn new things.
There’s also a lot about her in Ann’s book Slander.
I wasn’t criticizing the use of nannies. My comment comes from my (and my family’s, and my hometown’s) liberal background: I remember a family member telling me that Schafley had a nanny. The point was this: she was critical of women who worked, etc., but she was a wealthy woman with a nanny. So those who didn’t like her say that it was easy for her to criticize working women, because of the money she had and the help she hired to make her life easier.
I started to write a prank email to Summers ‘from’ the Committee on Diversity and Tolerance starting out with “Not enough, you sniveling dog…”. I decided not to because I actually feel sorry for the guy. No doubt he is a good person in an impossible predicament, but he would do Harvard and himself a service if he stood up for academic inquiry and intellectual diversity. But this is not a tragedy for Harvard. Just a continuation of the same and perhaps some healthy embarrassment.
I could end up despising him eventually though. I felt sorry for Jimmy Carter years ago and that has changed to contempt.
mj, now I get it.
Summers is a liberal who plays ball in the liberal playground. Now he’s getting a dose of what his precious Harvard and liberal buddies are all about. Boo Hoo for Larry. I hope they destroy him. But even then, I doubt he’ll get the lesson.
If the ERA passes, there will be unisex bathrooms.
It didn’t and there are.
I remember her saying that back in the 70s and thought what?????
La Shawn (I’m doing the first name, now
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I was just checking my blog’s Technorati page, and I saw that this entry is the top listing there. It was entitled “Phyllis Schlafly” – and on seeing that, I got nervous.
It was about one week ago that I found out that the conservative writer Dr. Sam Francis had passed away. He was only born in 1947, and this was surprising news. It seems that several people have been just suddenly passing away in recent days… So when I saw an entry with this title, I was afraid that…
She is about 80 years old, and she has done so much great work. I am glad that she is continuing it into the present.
I greatly admire Mrs. Schalfly (I shared that excellent, and fun-to-read Coulter column with another conservative blogger awhile back)… I was excited to have the opportunity to meet and talk to this great conservative leader two years ago (wow – it’s been that long…) at an anti-ERA rally here in Springfield. Here is some bloggage that I did about that.
I wish that I had more time and energy at this time to blog… I feel like I’ve gotten so far behind! (But then, that’s the way it’s seemed for awhile now…) Keep up the great work at this site, and God Bless!
I read a biography of Phyllis Schafly when I was a teen. I was totally impressed. She’s an amazing woman.
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