Top 100 Schlessinger Quotes
#1. We've all listened to Dr. Laura Schlessinger, haven't we? We all know how not to play a psychiatrist.
Lesley-Anne Down
#2. It is typical of women to fester and ferment over disappointments, slights, annoyances, angers, etc.
Laura Schlessinger
#3. I think it was much better when you got on your horse and rode two miles to talk to your neighbor.
Laura Schlessinger
#4. I spent two yours of my life being anorexic, but I would never dream of throwing up - my God!
Laura Schlessinger
#5. 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.
Laura Schlessinger
#9. Just hanging around the house is deadly--get out and experience the world together; do things you've never done before!
Laura C. Schlessinger
#11. Everyone has the right to go on a vacation without kids if they want.
Laura Schlessinger
#12. 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.
Laura Schlessinger
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. You've got to commit to something. I'm not telling you it has to be your life's dream or that it'll get you a Nobel Prize. But it will earn you more ownership of yourself. Commit to something
that is the essence of soul-searching.
Laura C. Schlessinger
#16. 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
#17. Why should a man say what he feels, when a women is going to ignore what he says?
Laura Schlessinger
#20. People from the most horrendous of childhoods can have good lives, but it comes down to a very seemingly simple word. 'Choice.'
Laura Schlessinger
#21. A lot of what children's hurt feelings are about is how the parents react.
Laura Schlessinger
#23. If you think positively instead of negatively, you'll behave better and you'll feel better.
Laura Schlessinger
#24. Boys are slobs ... One reason is that mothers let them get away with it. Mothers are notorious for spoiling male children.
Laura Schlessinger
#25. Children do not need half a dozen sports, music, art, or theater activities. Kids actually need more free playtime without adult instruction.
Laura Schlessinger
#26. Crap happens in everybody's life all of the time, and the quality of that person is more based on how they behave under duress than when there's nothing bad going down.
Laura Schlessinger
#28. Don't put your nose into somebody else's laundry, if you are not willing to fold your own.
Laura Schlessinger
#29. 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
#31. There are so many ways to talk with the people who appreciate my help.
Laura Schlessinger
#32. 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
#36. 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.
Laura Schlessinger
#37. 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.
Laura Schlessinger
#39. 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
#40. Frankly, too many women treat their husbands as accessories instead of priorities.
Laura Schlessinger
#42. 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.
Laura Schlessinger
#43. 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
#44. The path to solid, supportive, healthy relationships, self-respect, and a quality life starts with the usually painful decision to do the Right Thing.
Laura C. Schlessinger
#45. 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
#47. Venting every feeling isn't mature. Learning to deal with uncomfortable and unpleasant feelings is an important aspect of maturity.
Laura C. Schlessinger
#48. If you're that hypersensitive about color and don't have a sense of humor, don't marry out of your race.
Laura Schlessinger
#49. 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.
Laura Schlessinger
#51. 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
#53. There are so many responsible, nice, kind guys out there. Why marry a fixer-upper?
Laura Schlessinger
#54. There is little reason left for society to respect women as it once did. Women get knocked up. They don't marry. They have abortions. They go to bars. They get knocked up again.
Laura Schlessinger
#56. Postponing happiness until "all your ducks are in order" means never because life is not that clean, fair or predictable. It isn't what happens to you that defines your life, it is what you do with it that does.
Laura C. Schlessinger
#57. Men are very emotionally dependent upon women from the day they are born to the day they expire.
Laura Schlessinger
#58. Perhaps the purpose of life is forged moment by moment. If you're going to wait till you find something "bigger than that" before you do anything, then you're doing a sixties kind of "I can't do anything till I find myself.
Laura C. Schlessinger
#59. Unless I have hallucinated, I have never made an anti-gay commentary, I have made anti-gay-activist-agenda commentaries.
Laura Schlessinger
#62. Your mother doesn't own you. Your father doesn't own you. You own you.
Laura Schlessinger
#63. A woman should always be more concerned with standing up for what is right than making sure everyone 'likes' her.
Laura Schlessinger
#66. 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
#69. Having a sense of purpose in life is the best way to avoid dispair.
Laura Schlessinger
#70. You can rescue a woman from a dragon - because you can go slay the dragon - but you can't rescue a woman from herself.
Laura Schlessinger
#71. Never do anything that you aren't prepared to face the true consequences of.
Laura Schlessinger
#72. It's humbling and enthralling to know your legacy when you're alive.
Laura Schlessinger
#74. Guys behave like they're naive, but they're not stupid. They know what's going on.
Laura Schlessinger
#75. A lot of people do what we call neurotic things in order to repair their childhood.
Laura Schlessinger
#76. So it is the fear, weakness, selfishness, and cowardice of onlookers that permit evil behavior to persist.
Laura C. Schlessinger
#77. Some women are like elephants. I don't mean size, I mean they never forget.
Laura Schlessinger
#81. People with integrity do what they say they are going to do. Others have excuses.
Laura Schlessinger
#82. Men are very easy to get along with- they just want to come home to something pleasant.
Laura Schlessinger
#83. It is attitude, infinitely more than circumstance, that determines the quality of life. Life is often quite tough, challenging us to choose between seemingly esoteric, intangible ideals and getting goodies or good vibes right now. You have character when you most often choose ideals.
Laura C. Schlessinger
#84. 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
#85. My mother isolated herself from all family and friends for some 20 years. And never met her grandchild, my son.
Laura Schlessinger
#87. So instead of feeling sorry for yourself, realize that your life, just like a developing child's, has phases
and now you're in the mommy phase.
Laura C. Schlessinger
#89. Research indicates that most women want their man to earn more than they do.
Laura Schlessinger
#90. 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.
Laura Schlessinger
#91. The worst thing is the world is a defensive my-kid-can't-do-anything-wrong parent.
Laura Schlessinger
#92. Decent responsible parents are a royal pain- that's how you know when you have them [such parents].
Laura Schlessinger
#93. Children have no reasonable assumption of privacy while they are minors in their parent's home.
Laura Schlessinger
#94. If your life is going to be dictated by what's comfortable, your life will stink.
Laura Schlessinger
#95. There are probably more internet hate sites about me than Charles Manson.
Laura Schlessinger
#96. 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
#98. If someone has a boy who gets to age 18 without something [a bone] being fractured, that kid has been overly controlled.
Laura Schlessinger
#100. On the Day of Atonement, Jews are commanded to seek forgiveness from the people we have hurt.
Laura Schlessinger
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