Phyllis Schlafly Quotes

Men think a woman should not have an opinion.

Man's constant need to disparage woman, to humble her, to deny her equal rights, and to belittle her achievements — all are expressions of his innate envy and fear.

Men don't oppress women any more than women oppress men.

I think I am really irreverent and I pretty much just talk to and about men the way men talk to and about women.

Demands for equality for women are threats to men's self-esteem and sense of sexual turf.

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.

It is rather ironic that society denies women certain rights under the pretext that they are emotional beings, and may become irrational when under pressure, while resorting to the emotions argument as an excuse for men's behaviour in honour crimes.

Every woman should be filled with shame by the thought that she is a woman.

It is better to be a male for one day than a female for ten

We're not sexists, we're chauvinists -- we're male chauvinist pigs, and we're happy to be because we think that's what men were destined to be. We think that's what women want.

There exists in the minds of men a tone of feeling toward women as toward slaves.

The only power that females have is given to them by males. The only thing which females do with that power is use it against males.

All theories of chivalry and generosity and vicarious representation fall, before the fact that woman has been grossly wronged by man. That being the case, the only modest and honest thing for man to do is to say, "Henceforward have a voice in making your own laws." Till this is done, she has no sure safeguard, since otherwise the same men who made the old barbarous laws may at any time restore them.

… male religious leaders have had -- and still have -- an option to interpret holy teachings either to exalt or subjugate women. They have, for their own selfish ends, overwhelmingly chosen the latter.

When women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole.

Women played no part in Athenian high culture. They could not vote, attend the theatre, or walk in the stoa talking philosophy. But the male orientation of Greek culture was inseparable of its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.

Misogyny should be understood as the ‘law enforcement’ branch of a patriarchal order, which has the overall function of policing and enforcing its governing ideology. Sexism wears a lab coat, misogyny goes on witch hunts.... Sexism is bookish; misogyny is combative. Sexism has a theory; misogyny wields a cudgel.

There’s no more despised figure on earth than a woman who seeks power.

I don't think women are better than men, I think men are a lot worse than women.

I do not fight against men, but against the system that is sexist.

I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.

The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.

The problem is with men. I know I shouldn't say this, but they've shrouded and hidden women to hide their incompetence.

Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!

Let's put one lie to rest for all time: the lie that men are oppressed, too, by sexism-the lie that there can be such a thing as men's liberation groups.