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Article: Activist Grandmother.(Conservative Phyllis Schlafly)
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- The World and I
- Article date:
- May 1, 1999
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A teenage Phyllis Schlafly accustomed herself to the buck and kick of large- caliber small arms as she put herself through college by test-firing machine guns and rifles at a St. Louis ammunition plant.
And it's perhaps well she worked such a job 48 hours a week during World War II, because it gave her a symbolic taste of the pitched political warfare she began to engage in later on. (In the 1970s, Schlafly virtually single-handedly derailed the feminist juggernaut for the Equal Rights Amendment.)
"After I got married and had children," she says in an interview, "political activism became my hobby. But it grew over the years until today politics is my ...