Top 160 Laura C. Schlessinger Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “You have the power. You are the magic wand.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

102. “Some people seem to see compassion as being mushy.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

103. “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 C. Schlessinger

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

— Laura C. Schlessinger

105. “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.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

106. “Arguing with a man doesn’t work.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

107. “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

108. “Men are very easy- You treat them well, and they behave right. You don’t treat them well, and they don’t behave right.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

109. “I know I’m right, and I know you’re wrong.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

110. “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.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

111. “I’m kind of a jock. I sail, I ride a bike, I hike, I pump iron. I just love to be active.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

112. “There is no movement without our own resistance.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

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

— Laura C. Schlessinger

114. “Well, I’m a Harley Babe.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

115. “Make decisions from the strong part of you, not the weak.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

116. “I think I average one good sulk a week.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

117. “My way of thinking is better than yours.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

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

— Laura C. Schlessinger

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

— Laura C. Schlessinger

120. “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 C. Schlessinger

121. “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.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

122. “The worst thing is the world is a defensive my-kid-can’t-do-anything-wrong parent.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

123. “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 C. Schlessinger

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

— Laura C. Schlessinger

125. “I spent two yours of my life being anorexic, but I would never dream of throwing up – my God!”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

126. “Men are very easy to get along with- they just want to come home to something pleasant.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

127. “Other people do not owe me their availability.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

128. “Sometimes guys avoid things they don’t know how to do well.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

129. “You can’t marry boys and expect them to be men – and you can’t massage them into being men.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

130. “Unless I have hallucinated, I have never made an anti-gay commentary, I have made anti-gay-activist-agenda commentaries.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

131. “The primary concern of the human animal is to avoid rejection and abandonment.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

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

— Laura C. Schlessinger

133. “That’s your life. Get used to it. Don’t get mad at me- you married him.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

134. “Distance lasts a day. But Reality lasts a lifetime.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

135. “That which is horrifying to you don’t do to anybody else.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

136. “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.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

137. “Depth has one address: fidelity in love...”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

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

— Laura C. Schlessinger

139. “There are so many responsible, nice, kind guys out there. Why marry a fixer-upper?”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

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

— Laura C. Schlessinger

141. “Make believe I’m right.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

142. “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 C. Schlessinger

143. “I was in college in the ’60s, and the whole feminist movement had swept me up.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

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

— Laura C. Schlessinger

145. “I haven’t yelled at anybody today. It’s been a slow day.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

146. “If you can’t handle the baggage, you’ll have to get out of the baggage room.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

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

— Laura C. Schlessinger

148. “There’s no battered woman alive who didn’t know in advance that the man was bad.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

149. “Going into therapy doesn’t guarantee poop on toast.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

150. “In the end analysis, all we have is who we are and the way we have lived our lives.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger