Laura Schlessinger
Laura Schlessinger
Laura Catherine Schlessingeris an American talk radio host, socially conservative commentator and author. Her radio program consists mainly of her responses to callers' requests for personal advice and has occasionally featured her short monologues on social and political topics. Her website says that her show "preaches, teaches, and nags about morals, values and ethics"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRadio Host
Date of Birth16 January 1947
CityBrooklyn, NY
CountryUnited States of America
My mother shut all her family out of her life over the years, though we made several futile attempts to stay connected. May God rest her soul.
We all have to make choices in life.
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.
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...
If your life is going to be dictated by what's comfortable, your life will stink.
My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.
People from the most horrendous of childhoods can have good lives, but it comes down to a very seemingly simple word. 'Choice.'
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 success of the show is when I get a fax or a letter from somebody who gave up drinking, who didn't get an abortion, didn't do an adoption,
A lot of what children's hurt feelings are about is how the parents react.
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.
I've made the decision not to do radio anymore.
When you live in a condo complex with people next door, I don't know how you can be dead for four months without anybody noticing you not coming and going.
There are so many ways to talk with the people who appreciate my help.