Laura Schlessinger Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By 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
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
A lot of people do what we call neurotic things in order to repair their childhood. — Laura Schlessinger
There's no battered woman alive who didn't know in advance that the man was bad. — 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
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
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