Laura Schlessinger Quotes & Sayings

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

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

#3. We can be negative and cynical or we can be charged and hot wored to find a way through it, over it, around it under it.

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#4. Radio is in my blood.

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#5. There's no reason to yell at anybody.

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#6. Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing.

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#7. When a man marries he takes a bigger risk than the woman, because she can march out with his kids, his money,
his home, and his dog.

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#8. 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.

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

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#10. There is no movement without our own resistance.

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#11. Guys are very simple.

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#12. Only good people feel guilt.

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

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#14. Children do not need half a dozen sports, music, art, or theater activities. Kids actually need more free playtime without adult instruction.

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

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#16. Never use God to hurt yourself.

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

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#18. People are like nations-if you help them a lot, they hate you.

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#19. 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.

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

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#21. I'm not cynical.

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#22. The time spent on family is not a sacrifice. You are living a life with choices; when you make the right ones, you have a good life.

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#23. Women have to be controlled- we're just too emotional.

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

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#25. The commandment to honor parents was given to ensure that the elderly, although they may not feel wanted by family or society, are still given their appropriate reward.

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#26. Everyone's related to someone who robbed a bank or did something.

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#27. Emotions have no I.Q.

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#28. There are so many responsible, nice, kind guys out there. Why marry a fixer-upper?

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

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#30. Unless I have hallucinated, I have never made an anti-gay commentary, I have made anti-gay-activist-agenda commentaries.

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#31. Never miss an opportunity to look like a nice guy.

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

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

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#34. There's no point dating a guy who can't support a family.

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#35. You can rescue a woman from a dragon - because you can go slay the dragon - but you can't rescue a woman from herself.

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#36. Never do anything that you aren't prepared to face the true consequences of.

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#37. Everything I say is true.

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

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#39. Principles don't mean anything until they cost you something.

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#40. Make believe I'm right.

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#41. People with integrity do what they say they are going to do. Others have excuses.

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#42. Men are very easy to get along with- they just want to come home to something pleasant.

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#43. I really am a woman at peace.

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

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#45. You'd be amazed at how much power women have over men - and the basic control is nagging ... Men are very simple creatures, like puppies.

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#46. The worst thing is the world is a defensive my-kid-can't-do-anything-wrong parent.

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

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

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

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

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

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#52. Kids who don't have moms suffer a lifetime.

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#53. My father was right. Unfortunately, he died before I could tell him.

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

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#55. That's your life. Get used to it. Don't get mad at me- you married him.

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#56. 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.

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

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

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

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#60. 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.

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#61. 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.

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

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

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#64. 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.

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#65. 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.

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#66. Sympathy is a better argument than criticism.

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

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

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#69. 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.

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#70. The primary concern of the human animal is to avoid rejection and abandonment.

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#71. 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.

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

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#73. I think I average one good sulk a week.

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#74. There is no such thing in life as no pain and no disappointment.

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#75. 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.

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#76. Never sell your soul.

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#77. Sometimes guys avoid things they don't know how to do well.

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#78. Self-esteem must be earned! When you dare to dream, dare to follow that dream, dare to suffer through the pain, sacrifice, self-doubts, and friction from the world, you will genuinely impress yourself.

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#79. Women who don't think they can get a neat guy hang onto losers because something is better than nothing.

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

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

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

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

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#84. You don't go by your feelings. You do what is right.

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#85. Some people seem to see compassion as being mushy.

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#86. Too many people make the past their identity and spend the rest of their lives accumulating sympathy for their past pain.

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#87. There's nothing wrong with blame, if blame is due.

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

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#89. Arguing with a man doesn't work.

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

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#91. Other people do not owe me their availability.

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

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#93. People get mad at me very easily. The magnitude of your anger toward me is the measure of how much you know you are doing wrong.

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#94. 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.

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#95. 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.

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