Phyllis Schlafly Quotes

We take men's obligation to earn money, and when they do it well, we blame them for having power and being oppressors. And when they don't do it all, women just don't marry men who are reading 'I'm Okay, You're Okay' in the unemployment line.

I think being ambitious, successful, powerful, making a lot of money - I don't care what color you are as a woman; it's difficult to find a mate. I think the natural order is that men want to be providers.

Men make more money but have lower net worths.

A divorcee is a women who got married so she didn't have to work, but now works so she doesn't have to get married.

I am stricken with the peculiar curse of being a 21st-century woman who makes more than the man she's living with - first with a husband for 13 years and now with a new partner.

As the relative pay of women has grown and the relative pay of less-educated, working class men has declined, the latter have been viewed as less and less marriageable…. With less to bring to the table, such men are regarded as less necessary—in part because women can now count on provisions from the welfare state as an additional independent source of income, however meager.

We're not the millionaires that people think when they see busses.

Many women have more power than they recognize, and they're very hesitant to use it, for they fear they won't be loved.

A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

I think you're only free if you're working on very low or huge money.

A relationship book I once read told women to use the word 'fun' whenever possible. The author claimed it had a subliminal aphrodisiac effect on men, who want a relaxed girl attached only to good times - the human equivalent of Diet Coke. This is not me.

Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.

Wealthy people have not disappeared, they are just not so willing to show off their wealth.

Economists typically think that your happiness goes up as you get more money, but the more you have, the less each additional dollar matters. This means that you value money most in times when you have less income and more expenses.

The man who respects a woman does not know what else to do with her.

There are a lot of millionairess situations. I'm one of them. I've always dated down financially. And now I'm changing my tune on that one. Things are going to change for me.

If I were to meet the most incredible man, and he just so happened to not make as much money as I do, I wouldn't hold it against him.

We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.

I don't want to be married to someone who feels inferior to my success or because I make more money than he does.

Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.

Once I married Fernando, I became invisible.

If you work, you should not be poor.

Liberty produces wealth, and wealth destroys liberty.

A marriage in which a woman is daily made to feel her dependence upon a man, is attended with the gravest moral perils. The only just rule is for the husband to allow his wife a fair share of his income, for her to do with as she pleases.