Laura Schlessinger Quotes & Sayings

Guys are very simple. — Laura Schlessinger

I talk every day about doing the right thing. — Laura Schlessinger

If someone has a boy who gets to age 18 without something [a bone] being fractured, that kid has been overly controlled. — Laura Schlessinger

If your life is going to be dictated by what's comfortable, your life will stink. — Laura Schlessinger

Well, the truth is that a lot of people lie about their health, they lie about the finances, they lie about things at work, they lie about things. — Laura Schlessinger

I think I average one good sulk a week. — Laura Schlessinger

Sympathy is a better argument than criticism. — Laura Schlessinger

In the history of humanity, women have never been as oppressed as they are right now. Men can make babies with us and then walk away. — Laura Schlessinger

I don't for one moment believe that these folks believe that it is better for an infant or a toddler to be in day care than to be home with Mom. I do believe that these folks feel guilty for not wanting to be at home, so they devise a new reality to compensate for their uncomfortable feelings. — Laura Schlessinger

Most people are weak and frightened, and run from anything which could be upsetting. Most people, also, are takers and not givers. — Laura Schlessinger

My sister is not a public person, so I don't think it's right to discuss her. — Laura Schlessinger

As women go, so goes civilization. — Laura Schlessinger

A lot of people do what we call neurotic things in order to repair their childhood. — Laura Schlessinger

Women have to be controlled- we're just too emotional. — Laura Schlessinger

Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing. — Laura Schlessinger

There's no reason to yell at anybody. — Laura Schlessinger

There's no battered woman alive who didn't know in advance that the man was bad. — Laura Schlessinger

Some women are like elephants. I don't mean size, I mean they never forget. — Laura Schlessinger

If you're a liberal, anything you say is protected. If you're a conservative, anything you say is hateful. — Laura Schlessinger

There is seemingly no biological benefit to acting with conscience; if there were, only moral individuals would survive and procreate. Sadly, we know that's not true. The benefit of conscience is that you won't suffer guilt (private) or shame (public), and that by your own self-imposed definition, you are a moral human, a special kind of animal who takes unique pride in elevating him/herself above the termites. — Laura Schlessinger

There are so many ways to talk with the people who appreciate my help. — Laura Schlessinger

When you change yourself to win someone's heart, you better be prepared to accept that this will now be your way of life forever. — Laura Schlessinger

I'm involved in so many different things, and there are so many profound reactions to what I do because I am big counter culture. — Laura Schlessinger

The ultimate quality of your life is not in your resume, but in the minds and hearts of those you mean something to because you gave yourself to them. — Laura Schlessinger

I want to be able to say what's on my mind and in my heart and what I think is helpful and useful without somebody getting angry, some special interest group deciding this is the time to silence a voice of dissent and attack affiliates, attack sponsors. I'm sort of done with that. — Laura Schlessinger

Women seem not to understand, or underestimate, the profound power they have over their husbands. — Laura Schlessinger

Children have no reasonable assumption of privacy while they are minors in their parent's home. — Laura Schlessinger

Your mother doesn't own you. Your father doesn't own you. You own you. — Laura Schlessinger

It's a tough world out there, and women can't afford to be weenies. — Laura Schlessinger

There are probably more internet hate sites about me than Charles Manson. — Laura Schlessinger

Listen, after almost twenty years of call-in radio, I can tell you that the main thrust of too many lives is an overemphasis on feeling good instead of doing good. Being admired and respected by the self and others has taken a back seat to feeling good, or, at least, avoiding feeling bad. And, oh boy, the excuses some of you can come up with for doing so! — Laura Schlessinger

I was in college in the '60s, and the whole feminist movement had swept me up. — Laura Schlessinger

Listen carefully, because I don't repeat myself - and if I do, I get testy. — Laura Schlessinger

My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current. — Laura Schlessinger

It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be. — Laura Schlessinger

You have to define success in your own way. What maintains your dignity and integrity and what is your life's plan; where do you want to put your efforts? I could be richer and more famous, but I would have to give up things that are of infinitely more value. — Laura Schlessinger

You can't marry boys and expect them to be men - and you can't massage them into being men. — Laura Schlessinger

Language is our way of communicating what we want and who we are. By using bad language, we diminish the divine spark within us that defines our humanity. — Laura Schlessinger

When you're around people, act like you like them. — Laura Schlessinger

Decent responsible parents are a royal pain- that's how you know when you have them [such parents]. — Laura Schlessinger

Go do the right thing. — Laura Schlessinger

Controlling mothers do not pass the baton to their son's new wife. — Laura Schlessinger

In this regard, pleasure is an event; happiness is a process. Pleasure is an end point; happiness is the journey. Pleasure is material; happiness is spiritual. Pleasure is self-involved; happiness is outer- and other-involved. — Laura Schlessinger

I'm kind of an antsy person. — Laura Schlessinger

Probably more than half of the people who go into psychology do so because they need help. I think it's their way of feeling that they have control. — Laura Schlessinger

On the Day of Atonement, Jews are commanded to seek forgiveness from the people we have hurt. — Laura Schlessinger

Make decisions from the strong part of you, not the weak. — Laura Schlessinger

It is typical of women to fester and ferment over disappointments, slights, annoyances, angers, etc. — Laura Schlessinger

People who have "their own issues" often don't stand back and look at the big picture- they're too busy orchestrating their own issues. — Laura Schlessinger

There's nothing wrong with blame, if blame is due. — Laura Schlessinger

When you live in a condo complex with people next door, I don't know how you can be dead for four months without anybody noticing you not coming and going. — Laura Schlessinger

For a long time, I was a career woman and that was it. — Laura Schlessinger

Principles don't mean anything until they cost you something. — Laura Schlessinger

Men are very emotionally dependent upon women from the day they are born to the day they expire. — Laura Schlessinger

There's no point in arguing with me- in my mind, I'm always right. — Laura Schlessinger

The feeling of your baby taking nourishment from your body for the first time is amazing, and it remains the most touching moment of my life. — Laura Schlessinger

My mother isolated herself from all family and friends for some 20 years. And never met her grandchild, my son. — Laura Schlessinger

You guys on the white horses keep trying to save women in distress, not realizing you just end up with a distressed woman. — Laura Schlessinger

If you take on the martyr/entitlement role, two things are definitely going to happen: you'll be a lot less happier with your life, and you will have a husband not exactly wanting to come home to you. — Laura Schlessinger

My father was right. Unfortunately, he died before I could tell him. — Laura Schlessinger

Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward. — Laura Schlessinger

Well, I'm a Harley Babe. — Laura Schlessinger

I'm so happy, I can hardly spit. — Laura Schlessinger

I spent two yours of my life being anorexic, but I would never dream of throwing up - my God! — Laura Schlessinger

There is no movement without our own resistance. — Laura Schlessinger

Oh, well, there's a difference between privacy and secrecy. — Laura Schlessinger

Arguing with a man doesn't work. — Laura Schlessinger

Stop saying "right" to me. I'm starting to feel hostile. — Laura Schlessinger

It doesn't matter how we were raised. We become the person we choose to be. — Laura Schlessinger

Depth has one address: fidelity in love ... — Laura Schlessinger

Never miss an opportunity to look like a nice guy. — Laura Schlessinger

Would you stop hoping? Hope is just postponed disappointment. — Laura Schlessinger

Research indicates that most women want their man to earn more than they do. — Laura Schlessinger

I'm making an announcement: Not one penny will I give to AIDS anything as long as [public sex is allowed in gay bathhouses]. Not cent one. It's a preventable disease. If you don't want to prevent it, I don't want to pay for it. — Laura Schlessinger

Marriage is not just about love and living together. It's much more complicated, especially when you are going to be making a family. — Laura Schlessinger

This is all you have. This is not a dry run. This is your life. If you want to fritter it away with your fears, then you will fritter it away, but you won't get it back later. — Laura Schlessinger

I know I'm right, and I know you're wrong. — Laura Schlessinger

Women view men like houses. They look for fixer-uppers. — Laura Schlessinger

I'm not cynical. — Laura Schlessinger

The worst thing is the world is a defensive my-kid-can't-do-anything-wrong parent. — Laura Schlessinger

Too many people make the past their identity and spend the rest of their lives accumulating sympathy for their past pain. — Laura Schlessinger

It just goes to show you that knowing things is highly insufficient--having the guts to back up what you know is what changes the course of a human being's future. (call, Nov. 10, 2014) — Laura Schlessinger

We all have to make choices in life. — Laura Schlessinger

I'm very fond of food. I get hungry, and I like to eat almost all the time. — Laura Schlessinger

Once the kids are in school, it's amazing what you can do. — Laura Schlessinger

I really am a woman at peace. — Laura Schlessinger

Only good people feel guilt. — Laura Schlessinger

That which is horrifying to you don't do to anybody else. — Laura Schlessinger

There's no point dating a guy who can't support a family. — Laura Schlessinger

Men are very easy- You treat them well, and they behave right. You don't treat them well, and they don't behave right. — Laura Schlessinger

Do not blame God for your stupid decisions. — Laura Schlessinger

The meaning of your life comes through your obligations to others. — Laura Schlessinger

I'm tired of the 'can't win against evil' way. I'm sorry, you cannot. They'll run you over. So that is my one big passion. 'Ten Stupid Things People Do to Let Evil Win' - that will be my next passion book. I am angry. — Laura Schlessinger

A woman should always be more concerned with standing up for what is right than making sure everyone 'likes' her. — Laura Schlessinger

It takes courage to have a conscience when you seem to see others getting something tangible out of not bothering to struggle with the morality of a situation. It gets frustrating and demoralizing. This is precisely where character comes in. All throughout history special people have felt compelled to do what they objectively saw as right and good - even in the face of humiliation or rejection or expulsion or torture or death. That is because they believed that certain ideas were more important than individual well-being. — Laura Schlessinger

Some people seem to see compassion as being mushy. — Laura Schlessinger

My way of thinking is better than yours. — Laura Schlessinger

One thing I've been happy as peach pie about - because I'm all about the children and the happiness of a woman because that makes the happiness of the home - is that nannies, day cares and babysitters are all collapsing, which is forcing moms and dads to raise their children at home. — Laura Schlessinger

Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage. — Laura Schlessinger

When men or women make their work their top priority and become hostile to the normal, natural needs of their children and spouse - obviously, something is wrong. — Laura Schlessinger