Do we have a hand mirror?' I asked from the kitchen doorway. 'Never use one,' said Lester, examining the date on a carton of sour cream. 'Naturally, you're a male. What you see is what you've got,' I said resentfully. 'Huh?' said Lester.
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PHYLLIS MCGINLEY My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, ra... PHYLLIS DILLER There is a strong correlation between belief in evolution and liberal views on government control, p... PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY Men should stop treating feminists like ladies, and instead treat them like the men they say they wa... PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY His finest hour lasted a minute and a half. PHYLLIS DILLER I don't think the GOP is going to die; I think Trump is going to revive it. PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY My college degree is from a great university in 1944. I got my master's at Harvard graduate scho... PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY This is one of the great games in the country. Rutgers has outstanding guard play, especially if the... PHYLLIS MANGINA I went through college while working a full-time manual-labor job, and I don't regret a minute o... PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY What you learn from my life is, first of all, that anybody can be a leader. You can be a leader. I w... PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY Gay activist groups are already starting to instruct same-sex couples to file joint income tax retur... PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY Big Brother is on the march. A plan to subject all children to mental health screening is underway, ... PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY [However, noting that the women thus accused of witchcraft] belonged to the same ethnic and national... PHYLLIS CHESLER Congress should pass legislation to remove from the federal courts their jurisdiction to hear these ... PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY I hope that things can change in a way that will make it possible to cure the children that are now ... PHYLLIS BENNIS I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about short and cheap? PHYLLIS DILLER After Big Media, U.S. colleges and universities are the biggest enemies of the values of red-state A... PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY We're all doing it. We're all exhausted. PHYLLIS MOEN If your house is really a mess and a stranger comes to the door greet him with, "Who could have done... PHYLLIS DILLER The European nations' loss of sovereignty to the EU should be a warning to Americans. PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, ran... PHYLLIS DILLER Our public school system is our country's biggest and most inefficient monopoly, yet it keeps de... PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY It is long overdue for parents to realize they have the right and duty to protect our children again... PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY Those wearing tolerance for a label call other views intolerable. PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Any judge who allows an adulterer with a live-in girlfriend to terminate the life of his wife should... PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY In a world of inhumanity, war and terrorism, American citizenship is a very precious possession. PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY God made them? You think God made them? Did God call White Flower Farm and order the bulbs? Did God ... PHYLLIS ROSE Perhaps that is what love is: the momentary or prolonged refusal to think of another person in terms... PHYLLIS ROSE The media has bought into the whole social revolution, the Kinsey ideas, and has been completely tak... PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY The most frequent complaint I hear from college students is that professors inject their leftist pol... PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY There are thousands of Ten Commandments plaques or monuments all over the country, and lawsuits to r... PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY It's not the physical location of birth that defines citizenship, but whether your parents are c... PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY My father used to call me the laughing hyena. PHYLLIS DILLER Sex education classes are like in-home sales parties for abortions PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY The justices have constitutionally protected obscenity in libraries, filth over cable television, an... PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY A reporter discovers, in the course of many years of interviewing celebrities, that most actors are ... PHYLLIS BATTELLE When I go out, I love to put on mascara and lipstick, but I simply don't have time for leisurely... PHYLLIS LOGAN Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves. PHYLLIS DILLER Feminists don't honor successful women. You never hear them talking about Margaret Thatcher. Tak... PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY I believe that the worst thing the liberals did in this country was the Lyndon Johnson welfare syste... PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY They fed them rice with maggots in it. He said the guys who couldn't eat it died. PHYLLIS LEHMAN Aim high, and you won't shoot your foot off PHYLLIS DILLER But the kitchen will not come into its own again until it ceases to be a status symbol and becomes a... PHYLLIS MCGINLEY