Laura Schlessinger Quotes

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

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.

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

You guys on the white horses keep trying to save women in distress, not realizing you just end up with a distressed woman.

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.

Somehow we've even developed the notion that a woman who seeks to meet her husband's needs is subservient (but a husband who fails to meet his wife's needs is a pig.)

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

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.

Never ask anyone if you should do something, if ultimately you are afraid to do it. You'll save yourself a lot of trouble.

Never use God to hurt yourself.

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

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

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

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.

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

Only good people feel guilt.

Go do the right thing.

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.

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

The path to solid, supportive, healthy relationships, self-respect, and a quality life starts with the usually painful decision to do the Right Thing.

Your mother doesn't own you. Your father doesn't own you. You own you.

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

Never miss an opportunity to look like a nice guy.

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.

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

As women go, so goes civilization.

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.

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

I want to regain my First Amendment rights.

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

Never sell your soul.

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

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.

That which is horrifying to you don't do to anybody else.

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

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

Situations reveal who we are, they don't create who we are.

Emotions have no I.Q.

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.

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

When we're hurting, it does not give us a license to hurt others.

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.

There's no reason to yell at anybody.

When you're around people, act like you like them.

Most people are weak and frightened, and run from anything which could be upsetting. Most people, also, are takers and not givers.

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

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

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

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