Top 160 Laura C. Schlessinger Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Isn’t it nice to know that you can put a worm on your hook and get a fish all charged up?”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

102. “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 C. Schlessinger

103. “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

104. “Children are not a right, they are a privileged obligation.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

105. “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

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

— 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. “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

109. “People are like nations-if you help them a lot, they hate you.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

110. “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

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

— Laura C. Schlessinger

112. “Well, I’m a Harley Babe.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

113. “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 C. Schlessinger

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

— Laura C. Schlessinger

115. “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

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

— Laura C. Schlessinger

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

— Laura C. Schlessinger

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

— Laura C. Schlessinger

119. “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

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

— Laura C. Schlessinger

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

— Laura C. Schlessinger

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

— Laura C. Schlessinger

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

— Laura C. Schlessinger

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

— Laura C. Schlessinger

125. “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 C. Schlessinger

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

— Laura C. Schlessinger

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

— Laura C. Schlessinger

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

— Laura C. Schlessinger

129. “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

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

— Laura C. Schlessinger

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

— Laura C. Schlessinger

133. “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

134. “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

135. “Make believe I’m right.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

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

— Laura C. Schlessinger

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

— Laura C. Schlessinger

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

— Laura C. Schlessinger

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

— Laura C. Schlessinger

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

— Laura C. Schlessinger

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

— Laura C. Schlessinger

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

— Laura C. Schlessinger

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

— Laura C. Schlessinger

144. “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

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

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

— Laura C. Schlessinger

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

— Laura C. Schlessinger

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

— Laura C. Schlessinger

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

— Laura C. Schlessinger