Phyllis George quote: "My unanticipated success as a sportscaster is a perfect example of the importance of saying yes to yourself, even when you are uncertain."

Crafts make us feel rooted, give us a sense of belonging and connect us with our history. Our ancest...
PHYLLIS GEORGE

It doesn't seem too unusual to have a live hermit crab here in Atlantic City, but when you think I b...
PHYLLIS GEORGE

There's a fine line between being sweet and innocent and being a tough broad
PHYLLIS GEORGE

Life is what you make it: If you snooze, you lose; and if you snore, you lose more.
PHYLLIS GEORGE

Seventy is wormwood, Seventy is gall But its better to be seventy, Than not alive at all.
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY

There is nothing quite like a freshly brewed pot of tea to get you going in the morning.
PHYLLIS LOGAN

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.
PHYLLIS THEROUX

My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.
PHYLLIS DILLER

Remember, those that wait upon the Lord will rise up with wings like eagles, and they will run and n...
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY

My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee.
PHYLLIS DILLER

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.
PHYLLIS DILLER

I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them.
PHYLLIS DILLER

You know you're old if your walker has an airbag.
PHYLLIS DILLER

You know you're old if they have discontinued your blood type.
PHYLLIS DILLER

I'm eighteen years behind in my ironing.
PHYLLIS DILLER

Best way to get rid of kitchen odors: Eat out.
PHYLLIS DILLER

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the ...
PHYLLIS DILLER

If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
PHYLLIS DILLER

I asked the waiter, 'Is this milk fresh?' He said, 'Lady, three hours ago it was grass.&...
PHYLLIS DILLER

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops ...
PHYLLIS DILLER

A broken heart is what makes life so wonderful five years later, when you see the guy in an elevator...
PHYLLIS BATTELLE

Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed.
PHYLLIS DILLER

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriag...
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.
PHYLLIS THEROUS

Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human natu...
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do he...
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be gra...
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY

The knowingness of little girls hidden underneath their curls.
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY

The system -- the American one, at least -- is a vast and noble experiment. It has been polestar and...
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
PHYLLIS DILLER

I do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality. But it is a myth willfully fostered an...
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY

A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, she can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby, she can use...
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY

Sometimes I have a notion that what might improve the situation is to have women take over the occup...
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.
PHYLLIS DILLER

Oh, high is the price of parenthood, and daughters may cost you double. You dare not forget, as you ...
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY

Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation...
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.
PHYLLIS DILLER

The Enemy, who wears her mother's usual face and confidential tone, has access; doubtless stares int...
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.
PHYLLIS DILLER

In my early life, and probably even today, it is not sufficiently understood that a child's educatio...
PHYLLIS BOTTOME

Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room.
PHYLLIS DILLER

What I am defending is the real rights of women. A woman should have the right to be in the home as ...
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY

Of course we women gossip on occasion. But our appetite for it is not as avid as a man s. It is in t...
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY

Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of t...
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY

The thing to remember about fathers is, they're men. A girl has to keep it in mind: They are dragon-...
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY

Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders b...
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
PHYLLIS DILLER

Who could deny that privacy is a jewel? It has always been the mark of privilege, the distinguishing...
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself meeting...
PHYLLIS BOTTOME

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops sno...
PHYLLIS DILLER

Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY

My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor
PHYLLIS DILLER

Sin has always been an ugly word, but it has been made so in a new sense over the last half-century....
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY

Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY

Sticks and stones are hard on bones aimed with angry art. Words can sting like anything but silence ...
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY

Frigidity is largely nonsense. It is this generation's catchword, one only vaguely understood and co...
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet...
PHYLLIS BOTTOME

If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
PHYLLIS DILLER

A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once
PHYLLIS DILLER

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next...
PHYLLIS DILLER

If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
PHYLLIS DILLER

Aim high, and you won't shoot your foot off.
PHYLLIS DILLER

I would not want to be called a feminist. The feminists don't believe in success for women and, ...
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY

A lot of people don't understand what feminism is. They think it is about advance and success fo...
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY

American women are so fortunate. When I got married, all I wanted in the world was a dryer so I didn...
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY

The only time I ever enjoyed ironing was the day I accidentally got gin in the steam iron.
PHYLLIS DILLER

For her fifth wedding, the bride wore black and carried a scotch and soda.
PHYLLIS BATTELLE

Our dog died from licking our wedding picture.
PHYLLIS DILLER

Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be a...
PHYLLIS BOTTOME

What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.
PHYLLIS DILLER

When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from T...
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY

Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?
PHYLLIS DILLER

The reason women don't play football is because 11 of them would never wear the same outfit in p...
PHYLLIS DILLER

Sex education classes are like in-home sales parties for abortions.
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY

I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at crea...
PHYLLIS THEROUX

There's so little money in my bank account, my scenic checks show a ghetto.
PHYLLIS DILLER

Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by...
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY

A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.
PHYLLIS DILLER

History offers no evidence for the proposition that the assignment of women to military combat jobs ...
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY

It would be a tragic mistake for Congress ever to adopt any public or tax policy which encourages mo...
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY

Anyone with a child knows that children learn about the world through binary options: up or down, ho...
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY

Suppose the pay gap between men and women were magically eliminated. If that happened, simple arithm...
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY

Now that judges embrace forcibly starving someone to death, Congress should use its appropriation po...
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY

You know you're old when someone compliments you on your alligator shoes, and you're barefoo...
PHYLLIS DILLER

My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, ran...
PHYLLIS DILLER

The reason the pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing.
PHYLLIS DILLER

The trouble with gardening is that it does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY

Putting women in military combat is the cutting edge of the feminist goal to force us into an androg...
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY

Since the women are the ones who bear the babies, and there's nothing we can do about that, our ...
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY

When it comes to determining child custody, however, sexism is the rule.
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY

Of course climate changes. Many changes are due to factors over which humans have no control, such a...
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY

A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, she can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby, she can use...
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY

I think the main goal of the feminist movement was the status degradation of the full-time homemaker...
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY

I simply didn't believe we needed a constitutional amendment to protect women's rights. I kn...
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY

If you find yourself caring for a relative with dementia, the chances are you'll need help.
PHYLLIS LOGAN

When I had a baby, I didn't leave the second floor for six months. I nursed my babies. I was a f...
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY

Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a...
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.
PHYLLIS THEROUS

I'm eighteen years behind in my ironing. There's no use doing it now, it doesn't fit anybody I know.
PHYLLIS DILLER

If your house is really a mess and a stranger comes to the door greet him with, "Who could have done...
PHYLLIS DILLER

I buried a lot of my ironing in the back yard.
PHYLLIS DILLER

I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them.
PHYLLIS DILLER

To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart.
PHYLLIS THEROUX

The advance planning and sense stimuli employed to capture a $10 million cigarette or soap market ar...
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY

Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages ...
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY

I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about short and cheap?
PHYLLIS DILLER

Women are the fulfilled sex. Through our children we are able to produce our own immortality, so we ...
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY

A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
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

For her fifth wedding, the bride wore black and carried a scotch and soda.
PHYLLIS BATELLE

If you haven't had at least a slight poetic crack in the heart, you have been cheated by nature.
PHYLLIS BATELLE

A broken heart is what makes life so wonderful five years later, when you see that special guy in an...
PHYLLIS BATELLE

As long as I could remember, I had looked forward to a handful of wonderful events - a total eclipse...
PHYLLIS EISENSTEIN

How can we protect homeland security unless the government stops the invasion of illegal aliens?
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY

ERA means abortion funding, means homosexual privileges, means whatever else.
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY

Sexual harassment on the job is not a problem for virtuous women.
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY

prompted by a growing concern, deeply held, about the future of the country's national security.
PHYLLIS OAKLEY

crumbling under an administration blinded by ideology and a callous indifference to the realities of...
PHYLLIS OAKLEY

I think the markets expect just about any outcome, though I don't think an ECB or a Swedish rate hik...
PHYLLIS REED

Her father had brought her a bookbag. It had pencils and pens in it and even a yo-yo to play with. S...
PHYLLIS HUNTER

A reporter discovers, in the course of many years of interviewing celebrities, that most actors are ...
PHYLLIS BATELLE

Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered. What I don't...
PHYLLIS DILLER

We had 15 turnovers in the first half and a lot of those were unforced. We just didn't handle the ba...
PHYLLIS ARTHUR

Milton is a very good shooting team, so we'll have to play strong defense. They're very tall with pl...
PHYLLIS ARTHUR

It's been pretty good so far, but I'm not satisfied.
PHYLLIS ARTHUR

They want to close out their high school careers on a high note. I told them they didn't want to los...
PHYLLIS ARTHUR

Their maturity level is much higher than it was two years ago. They've been through the experience o...
PHYLLIS ARTHUR

We had a great practice on Wednesday and again on Thursday, so we came ready to play. Marietta is a ...
PHYLLIS ARTHUR

Tabitha is a laid-back kid and she's mostly a leader by example, but she's trying to be more of a vo...
PHYLLIS ARTHUR

We really stepped it up defensively in the third quarter. To give up only four points in a quarter a...
PHYLLIS ARTHUR

She's played at least one game in every position. She's played point guard, two-guard, both forward ...
PHYLLIS ARTHUR

I buried a lot of my ironing in the back yard
PHYLLIS DILLER

There's so little money in my bank account, my scenic checks show a ghetto
PHYLLIS DILLER

The Bush Administration and Congress should fix the injustices caused by the feminist-enforced Title...
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY

Women want men, careers, money, children, friends, luxury, comfort, independence, freedom, respect, ...
PHYLLIS DILLER

Best way to get rid of kitchen odors: Eat out
PHYLLIS DILLER

Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parent...
PHYLLIS DILLER

What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day
PHYLLIS DILLER

Fang drops so much food on his ties we keep them in the refrigerator
PHYLLIS DILLER

It's an ill will that blows when you leave the hairdresser
PHYLLIS DILLER

Keep at least one window pane clean to check the weather. Once when I didn’t do this I sent the ki...
PHYLLIS DILLER

If that's the best joke in the world, then I've never had a face-lift.
PHYLLIS DILLER

He was in the air most of the time ... on the air, in the air, one way or the other. It was his thin...
PHYLLIS DILLER

For Fang, getting out of bed in the morning is a career move
PHYLLIS DILLER

My photographs don't do me justice - they just look like me
PHYLLIS DILLER

Just because I have rice on my clothes doesn't mean I've been to a wedding. A Chinese man threw up o...
PHYLLIS DILLER

Our dog died from licking our wedding picture
PHYLLIS DILLER

Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?
PHYLLIS DILLER

There's a new medical crisis. Doctors are reporting that many men are having allergic reactions to l...
PHYLLIS DILLER

The judges' obsession with smut is astounding.
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY

I asked the waiter, 'Is this milk fresh?' He said, 'Lady, three hours ago it was grass
PHYLLIS DILLER

His finest hour lasted a minute and a half
PHYLLIS DILLER

The secret of torture, like the secret of French cuisine, is that nothing is unthinkable.
PHYLLIS ROSE

She's always been the one to volunteer when others don't.
PHYLLIS JACKSON

The worst censors are those prohibiting criticism of the theory of evolution in the classroom.
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY

The most censored speech in America today is not flag-burning, pornography, or the press.
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY

You know you're old if your walker has an airbag
PHYLLIS DILLER

We are a work in progress with a lifetime contract.
PHYLLIS KOSS

You know you're old if they have discontinued your blood type
PHYLLIS DILLER

My unanticipated success as a sportscaster is a perfect example of the importance of saying yes to yourself, even when you are uncertain.

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My unanticipated success as a sportscaster is a perfect example of the importance of saying yes to yourself, even when you are uncertain.

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