Laura Schlessinger Women Quotations

Men are very emotionally dependent upon women from the day they are born to the day they expire.

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.

A typical complaint of married women with children is that their job stress tired them out so that they have little quality emotion and energy left for their children, much less their husbands.

Women view men like houses. They look for fixer-uppers.

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

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

Do not blame God for your stupid decisions.

Don't talk over me, don't argue with me, just listen.

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.

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

Why should a man say what he feels, when a women is going to ignore what he says?

Arguing with a man doesn't work.

Don't waste my time- I'm not stupid, and I'm not gullible.

I spent two yours of my life being anorexic, but I would never dream of throwing up - my God!

A lot of what children go through is because you adults don't carry the burden yourself.

Behavior is a symptom. If you look at it like a problem, you're just going to make a judgment. If you look at like a symptom, you can do something about it.

Don't underestimate how fine you are.

If you think positively instead of negatively, you'll behave better and you'll feel better.

Children have no reasonable assumption of privacy while they are minors in their parent's home.

Every man knows- you criticize a woman - that's it for sex for the next year.

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

Going into therapy doesn't guarantee poop on toast.

It's a tough world out there, and women can't afford to be weenies.

It doesn't matter what you say [to me] after "even though". I never change my mind. Give it up.

Isn't it nice to know that you can put a worm on your hook and get a fish all charged up?

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.

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

If someone has a boy who gets to age 18 without something [a bone] being fractured, that kid has been overly controlled.

I'm very fond of food. I get hungry, and I like to eat almost all the time.

I'm not good at debating - I'm much better at pontificating.

I'm so happy, I can hardly spit.

If your life is going to be dictated by what's comfortable, your life will stink.

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

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.

I think I average one good sulk a week.

I haven't yelled at anybody today. It's been a slow day.

I know I'm right, and I know you're wrong.

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

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

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

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

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.

You can't marry boys and expect them to be men - and you can't massage them into being men.

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

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

Women have to be controlled- we're just too emotional.

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

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

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.

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

There's nothing wrong with blame, if blame is due.

Nothing is irresistible. There is no feeling that is irresistible.

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

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

Men are very easy- You treat them well, and they behave right. You don't treat them well, and they don't behave right.

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

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

Marriage is not just about love and living together. It's much more complicated, especially when you are going to be making a family.

Promises made out of ignorance should not be kept.

The worst thing is the world is a defensive my-kid-can't-do-anything-wrong parent.

My way of thinking is better than yours.

Stop saying "right" to me. I'm starting to feel hostile.

Only good people feel guilt.

Other people do not owe me their availability.

Never use God to hurt yourself.

Never miss an opportunity to look like a nice guy.

Some women are like elephants. I don't mean size, I mean they never forget.

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

Sometimes guys avoid things they don't know how to do well.

Nobody leaves a house where there is peace, joy and good sex.

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

Make believe I'm right.

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.

Listen carefully, because I don't repeat myself - and if I do, I get testy.

There's no point in arguing with me- in my mind, I'm always right.

There's no point feeling angry at a drunk.

There's no point dating a guy who can't support a family.

There's no battered woman alive who didn't know in advance that the man was bad.

There is no unconditional love in the universe.

There is no such thing in life as no pain and no disappointment.

Would you stop hoping? Hope is just postponed disappointment.

A lot of people do what we call neurotic things in order to repair their childhood.

As women go, so goes civilization.

Boys are slobs... One reason is that mothers let them get away with it. Mothers are notorious for spoiling male children.

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

Don't put your nose into somebody else's laundry, if you are not willing to fold your own.

People get mad at me very easily. The magnitude of your anger toward me is the measure of how much you know you are doing wrong.

It doesn't matter how we were raised. We become the person we choose to be.

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