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Phyllis Schlafly (born August 15, 1924, in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American conservative political activist known for her best-selling 1964 book A Choice, Not An Echo , and her opposition to feminism and the Equal Rights Amendment. Schlafly co-authroed several books on national defense, and was highly critical of arms-control agreements with the former Soviet Union. In 1961 she wrote that arms control "will not stop Red aggression any more than disarming our local police will stop murder, theft, and rape." A widely-published author and commentator, Schlafly also maintains an active presence on the lecture circuit. In 1972, she founded the Eagle Forum, and was the founder and president of a sister organization known as the Eagle Forum Education & Legal Defense Fund, which also operates in the Eagle Forum's St. Louis office. As of 2007, she is still the president of both organizations. Since 1967, she has published her own political newsletter, the Phyllis Schlafly Report. She was married to attorney John Fred Schlafly, Jr., (1909 - 1993) for forty-four years. They had six children: John, Bruce, Roger, Liza, Andrew, and Anne.
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