Phyllis Schlafly Quotes
The real fight is within the Republican Party to get it to nominate grassroots-type candidates who the public wants, and not just some 'echo' of the other side.
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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
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I don't just say I'm conservative. I have boot leather to my gospel.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, 'tough this and tough that.' Then there is this business about 'gooey.' The bottom line is I am a pragmatic idealist.
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I was a tomboy.
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I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.
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It is only human supremacy, which is as unacceptable as racism and sexism, that makes us afraid of being more inclusive.
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I've tried to show in my most recent book, the 'Irresistible Fairytale', that in order to talk about any genre, particularly what we call simple genre - a myth, a legend, an anecdote, a tall tale, and so on - we really have to understand something about the origin of stories all together.
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If we just allowed women and men more leeway in our culture and more acceptance, I think they would be able to make better compromises.
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Playing hard to get is not the way to win me over. I'm definitely more for the girl who can smile and laugh all the time and just have a good time!
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Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
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When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.
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The real story is that I had unprotected sex. That's that. That's easy.
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Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again.
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I am convinced that only by applying the values of an entrepreneur to philanthropy will you ever be able to meet the needs of the greatest number of people.
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I could just go to the horse races and take lovely holidays, but I have some strong views, and I want to make a difference.
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Know your worth! People always act like they're doing more for you than you're doing for them.
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Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.
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In Hollywood the man who cleans your pool is an actor. The man who sells you your copy of Variety is an actor. I don't think there's a real person left in the place.
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It was a woman's bedroom, actually a boudoir, and no man belonged in it except by invitation.
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Fascism is fascism. Terrorism is terrorism. Oppression is oppression.
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We may form free constitutions, but our vices will destroy them; we may enact laws, but they will not protect us.
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It matters more what's in a woman's face than what's on it.
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The real fight is within the Republican Party to get it to nominate grassroots-type candidates who the public wants, and not just some 'echo' of the other side.
