Quotations
| The Issue | Schlafly's View of the Feminist Stance | Schlafly's Stance |
|---|---|---|
| Women's Roles | “…the women’s liberation movement …that there is no difference between male and female…and that all those physical, cognitive, and emotional differences you think are there, are merely the result of restraints imposed by a male-dominated society…The role imposed on women is…inferior, according to the women’s liberationists”. | “A Positive Woman cannot defeat a man in a wrestling or boxing match, but she can motivate him, inspire him, encourage him, teach him, restrain him, and reward him, and have power over him that he can never achieve over her with all his muscle”. |
| Marriage | “Feminist literature paints marriage as slavery, the home (in Betty Friedan’s words) as a ‘comfortable concentration camp, ’ the husband as the oppressor, the family as an anachronism, and children as the daily drudgery from which the modern woman must be freed in order to pursue more fulfilling careers”. | “What does a woman want out of life? If you want to love and be loved, marriage offers the best opportunity to achieve your goal…Marriage and motherhood give a woman new identity and the opportunity for all-round fulfillment as a woman”. |
| Motherhood | “Feminist ideology teaches that it is demeaning to women to care for their babies, and therefore the role of motherhood should be eliminated…so that women can fulfill themselves in the paid labor force”. | “ of career success can compare with the thrill, satisfaction, and fun of having and caring for babies and watching them respond and grow under a mother’s loving care”. |
| Family | “Except for the unfortunate women who were caught up in the feminist foolishness of the 1970s, most women don’t want to be liberated from home, husband, family, and children”. | “Society simply has not invented a better way of raising children than the traditional family… division of labor is cost efficient, the environment is healthy, and the children thrive on the ‘object constancy’ of the mother”. |
| Employment | “…the propaganda of the women’s liberation movements motherhood is the least attractive role a woman can choose, and that the work force offers more rewards and more fulfillments”. | “After twenty years…a mother can see the results of her own handiwork in the good citizen she has produced and trained. After twenty years…in the business world, you are lucky if you have a good watch to show for your efforts”. |
| Women and the Military | “The push to repeal laws that exempt women from military combat duty must be the strangest of all aberrations indulged in by…the woman’s liberation or feminist movement. The very idea of women serving in military combat is so unnatural that it almost sounds like a death wish for our species”. | “There are many cultural, societal, family, pregnancy, and practical reasons why women should not be drafted. Women have more important things to do, such as taking care of their babies and keeping their families together”. |
| Gender Neutrality | “Operating like a censorship gestapo, the feminist movement has combed primary grade readers, school textbooks, and career-guidance materials to eliminate any mention of the natural gender traits of youngsters”. | “…despite all the attempts to blur gender identity…and even to pervert the English language by forcing schoolchildren to use such annoying pronouns as he/she or s/he, there is no evidence that human nature is changing. The attempt to change it confuses youth and frustrates adults”. |
Read more about this topic: Phyllis Schlafly's Social Policies
Famous quotes containing the word quotations:
“A book that furnishes no quotations is, me judice, no book—it is a plaything.”
—Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866)
“Reading any collection of a man’s quotations is like eating the ingredients that go into a stew instead of cooking them together in the pot. You eat all the carrots, then all the potatoes, then the meat. You won’t go away hungry, but it’s not quite satisfying. Only a biography, or autobiography, gives you the hot meal.”
—Christopher Buckley, U.S. author. A review of three books of quotations from Newt Gingrich. “Newtie’s Greatest Hits,” The New York Times Book Review (March 12, 1995)