She was a middle-aged housewife from Alton, Illinois. But in the 1970s, Phyllis Schlafly launched an anti-feminist crusade that would make her a household name — lauded by many, revered by some, but hated and smeared by many others.
Schlafly positioned herself as the defender of traditional motherhood, becoming virulently anti-feminist, and the leading opponent of the then still-pending Equal Rights Amendment.
As the founder of the group Eagle Forum, Schlafly also had huge influence on the direction of the conservative movement in America.
She even had a syndicated column, and in 2003 she published a collection of those columns, a book she called Feminist Fantasies.
So this is one of the several times that I interviewed her over the years. So here now, from 2003, Phyllis Schlafly.
Phyllis schlafly died in 2016. She was 92.
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