Best 155 quotes of Laura Schlessinger on MyQuotes

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

A lot of what children go through is because you adults don't carry the burden yourself.

A lot of what children's hurt feelings are about is how the parents react.

Arguing with a man doesn't work.

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

Because it's possible to do, and you have the right to do it, doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.

Behavior is a symptom. If you look at it like a problem, you're just going to make a judgment. If you look at like a symptom, you can do something about it.

Boys are slobs... One reason is that mothers let them get away with it. Mothers are notorious for spoiling male children.

Children are not a right, they are a privileged obligation.

Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

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

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

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

Depth has one address: fidelity in love.

Distance lasts a day. But Reality lasts a lifetime.

Do not blame God for your stupid decisions.

Don't put your nose into somebody else's laundry, if you are not willing to fold your own.

Don't talk over me, don't argue with me, just listen.

Don't underestimate how fine you are.

Don't waste my time- I'm not stupid, and I'm not gullible.

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

Every man knows- you criticize a woman - that's it for sex for the next year.

Everyone has the right to go on a vacation without kids if they want.

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

Frankly, too many women treat their husbands as accessories instead of priorities.

Going into therapy doesn't guarantee poop on toast.

Guys behave like they're naive, but they're not stupid. They know what's going on.

Having a sense of purpose in life is the best way to avoid dispair.

...home-schooled students are able to successfully adapt emotionally, interpersonally, and academically to their first, and most challenging, semester in college. That is probably because, having had the consistent teaching and support of a family and a community, they have developed strengths and convictions that provide a bridge over the troubled waters of a multitude of challenges and temptations.

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

If there's an award for best mother-in-law in the universe, in the future, when my son gets married, I will win that award.

If you can't handle the baggage, you'll have to get out of the baggage room.

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

If you're gay or lesbian, it's a biological error that inhibits you from relating normally to the opposite sex.

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

If you think positively instead of negatively, you'll behave better and you'll feel better.

If you want a weak man, you might as well marry a woman.

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.

I'm kind of a jock. I sail, I ride a bike, I hike, I pump iron. I just love to be active.

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.

I'm quite amused by the attempt to excuse not trying harder, by claiming that perfect is not possible; it may not be, but striving toward it as an ideal is! It is in the act of 'striving' that we demonstrate character, courage, and conscience.

I'm so happy, I can hardly spit.

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.

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

Integrity, honesty, and honor may not give immediate rewards or gratification, and they can be life-threatening (for example, being a whistle-blower or turning state's evidence). The absence of integrity, honesty, and honor do not always bring punishment or scorn, and can be life-aggrandizing (connivers and cheats often gain power and wealth). Therefore, morality must be its own reward.

In the end analysis, all we have is who we are and the way we have lived our lives.

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.

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.

Isn't it nice to know that you can put a worm on your hook and get a fish all charged up?

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