Phyllis Schlafly was a national leader of the conservative movement since the publication of her best-selling 1964 book, A Choice Not An Echo. She created the pro-family movement in 1972, when she started her national volunteer organization called Eagle Forum.
Phyllis Schlafly was a heroine, a role model, and a mentor to many Americans.
In conducting research for my upcoming book about American culture, I came across the controversial figure of Phyllis Schlafly. I remember her as someone my mother liked, as she was exactly the demographic Phyllis tried to reach: a Christian homemaker.
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“Feminism has changed the way women think, and it has changed the way men think, but the trouble is, it hasn’t changed the attitudes of babies at all,” said my mother, Phyllis Schlafly.
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In National Review’s 70th Anniversary issue, there’s an article attacking the legacy of conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly. The attack on a beloved icon of the right is bad enough on its own, but what makes the whole thing especially intolerable is that it is ultimately an attack on the legacy of National Review itself.
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Phyllis Schlafly was right about so many issues, so on the ninth anniversary of her death, let us celebrate one of her favorite topics: good and wholesome food.
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My mother, Phyllis Schlafly, knew how to whip it. She placed egg whites on a platter and would use her grandmother’s flat whisk to whip the egg whites to huge peaks.
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“If a woman is poorly dressed, you notice her dress. If a woman is impeccably dressed, you notice the woman,” said the fashion designer Coco Chanel. On this Mother’s Day, I recognize the important choice to dress impeccably because everyone will then recognize and notice the person.
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2024 is the Centennial of my mother’s birth. What a great moment to review her remarkable achievements.
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Phyllis Schlafly was, in the words of the eminent conservative journalist M. Stanton Evans, a woman with “several careers–housewife, mother, media personality, political leader, and constant nemesis of women’s lib.” She was, like National Review’s founder William F. Buckley Jr., a force of nature who tirelessly worked to advance the conservative movement–she wrote 27 books, thousands of articles and op-eds, constantly traveled and lectured, and founded and ran one most successful conservative advocacy organizations, the Eagle Forum.
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In May 1973, feminist leader Betty Friedan faced off against conservative firebrand Phyllis Schlafly to debate the proposed Equal Rights Amendment.
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“I loved Phyllis Schlafly!” said Tucker Carlson to me last weekend. My mother was loved and admired by so many people, which meant that I shared her time with a multitude of admirers both near and far. As one congressman asked me: what was it really like to grow up with an icon for a mother?
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