Laura Schlessinger Quotations

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray.

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

Psychology doesn't like to talk about evil. It likes to talk about bad childhoods. But I very much believe that some people are evil and motivation is not necessary for evil.

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

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

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.

I think it was much better when you got on your horse and rode two miles to talk to your neighbor.

People from the most horrendous of childhoods can have good lives, but it comes down to a very seemingly simple word. 'Choice.'

A typical complaint of married women with children is that their job stress tired them out so that they have little quality emotion and energy left for their children, much less their husbands.

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.

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.

I talk every day about doing the right thing.

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

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

Gay activists claim that because I don't subscribe to their political agenda, I am a homophobe, meaning I have a mental disorder - because that is what phobias are.

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

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

I want to regain my First Amendment rights.

If you're that hypersensitive about color and don't have a sense of humor, don't marry out of your race.

It's humbling and enthralling to know your legacy when you're alive.

Kids who don't have moms suffer a lifetime.

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

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

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

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

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.

We all have to make choices in life.

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

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

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

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've made the decision not to do radio anymore.

Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing.

Some people seem to see compassion as being mushy.

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

Joseph Farah and I share a fierce passion for protecting children and a belief that without the Ten Commandments there would be no U.S. Constitution or Bill of Rights,

My mother shut all her family out of her life over the years, though we made several futile attempts to stay connected. May God rest her soul.

The success of the show is when I get a fax or a letter from somebody who gave up drinking, who didn't get an abortion, didn't do an adoption,

The Declaration of Independence...is not a legal prescription conferring powers upon the courts; and the Constitution's refusal to 'deny or disparage' other rights is far removed from affirming any one of them, and even farther removed from authorizing judges to identify what they might be, and to enforce the judges' list against laws duly enacted by the people.

Did you hear what I said? It was very profound.

Do not blame God for your stupid decisions.

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

You don't need to make your heart and your head agree. Let your head make the decision, your heart will catch up eventually.

Depth has one address: fidelity in love....

You have the power. You are the magic wand.

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.

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.

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

Why should a man say what he feels, when a women is going to ignore what he says?

My best way of making someone admit to something's wrongness is to have them imagine that thing done to them. Suddenly then it all becomes clear.

Victimization status is the modern promised land of absolution from personal responsibility.

Arguing with a man doesn't work.

Life does not have meaning through mere existence or acquisition or fun. The meaning of life is inherent in the connections we make to others through honor and obligation...

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

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

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

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.

Don't underestimate how fine you are.

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

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

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.

Going into therapy doesn't guarantee poop on toast.

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

It doesn't matter what you say [to me] after "even though". I never change my mind. Give it up.

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

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.

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

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

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

I'm not good at debating - I'm much better at pontificating.

I'm so happy, I can hardly spit.

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

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

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.

I think I average one good sulk a week.

I haven't yelled at anybody today. It's been a slow day.

I know I'm right, and I know you're wrong.

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

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

It's not the worst thing in the world to look different from everyone else.

I pretty much preach, teach and nag.

We all get self-centered.

Never sell your soul.

Everything I say is true.

The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self-esteem. . . . Not doing right may have momentary payoffs but will wreak havoc with your self-esteem, respect from others, and quality of life.

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.

When you choose wrong because it suits you right now, the message you give others is that when it suits you, you may likely do wrong again. You become a threat and liability to others. That's a pragmatic reason, outside of pride in morality, not to do wrong.