Laura Schlessinger Quotes

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

Emotions have no I.Q.

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

Depth has one address: fidelity in love.

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.

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.

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.

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.)

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

Venting every feeling isn't mature. Learning to deal with uncomfortable and unpleasant feelings is an important aspect of maturity.

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

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

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

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.

So it is the fear, weakness, selfishness, and cowardice of onlookers that permit evil behavior to persist.

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

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.

Language is our way of communicating what we want and who we are.

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

Remember that feelings or emotions emanate from the more ancient, less evolved, lower part of the human brain, while thoughts are a product of our highly evolved, uniquely human, outer part of the brain.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

It takes courage to have a conscience when you seem to see others getting something tangible out of not bothering to struggle with the morality of a situation. It gets frustrating and demoralizing. This is precisely where character comes in. All throughout history special people have felt compelled to do what they objectively saw as right and good - even in the face of humiliation or rejection or expulsion or torture or death. That is because they believed that certain ideas were more important than individual well-being.

I want to regain my First Amendment rights.

Learning to endure, transform by perspective or action, and be grateful is the fast lane to a good life. That's right. Having great luck and fortune is not the conduit to a loving and enjoyable life; gratitude is.

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

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.

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

Listen, after almost twenty years of call-in radio, I can tell you that the main thrust of too many lives is an overemphasis on feeling good instead of doing good. Being admired and respected by the self and others has taken a back seat to feeling good, or, at least, avoiding feeling bad. And, oh boy, the excuses some of you can come up with for doing so!

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

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.

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

I pretty much preach, teach and nag.

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

Well, I'm a Harley Babe.

You have the power. You are the magic wand.

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

Distance lasts a day. But Reality lasts a lifetime.

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

Everything I say is true.

...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.

Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing.

There is no movement without our own resistance.

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.

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