She won the primary. Newspapers ran pictures of her in an apron, standing at the stove. (Caption: “She doesn’t allow politics to interfere with her wifely duties.”) This introduced what would become Schlafly’s trademark: her insistence that the biblically ordained role of wifely subservience could be perfectly harmonious with a life of accomplishment. Later, she would begin her anti–Equal Rights Amendment speeches, “First of all, I want to thank my husband Fred, for letting me come—I always like to say that, because it makes the libs so mad!” Conservative ladies adored it. The example she
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