Laura Schlessinger Quotes

I was in college in the '60s, and the whole feminist movement had swept me up.

Laura Schlessinger

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• My father was 40 when he had me, so he was more a grandparent than a parent.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Father
  • Me
  • Parent

• My mom teaches sixth grade and also taught first grade at one point. She's into dressing up and costumes and designing her own curriculum that way. She stayed home for about eight years with me and my sister when we were young before going back to teaching, so we had a lot of time with her. She taught us to read really early.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Up
  • Time
  • Home

• I've been a novelist since 1995 and have had novels in and out of option, and watching that process just made me realize that I have to live by what I teach my students, because I teach screenwriting at Spellman.

  

  Tananarive Due
  • Live
  • Teach
  • Option

• When life knocks you down, keep getting up.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Life
  • Up
  • You

• I was devastated when I got the review for my first book. The book came out a couple years before the women's movement broke through, and people were putting it down, asking, 'Why does the woman in this book need to get a divorce? Why can't she just shut up and be happy?'

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • People
  • Up
  • Women

• Don't change a thing. That's one of the best gimmicks a band could ever come up with.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Up
  • Change
  • Band

• The short hair fits my personality more. I think maybe, with long hair, it was a role - I was playing dress-up a bit.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Up
  • Long
  • Hair

• You have another little drink, and I'll have another little drink, and maybe we can work up some real family feeling here.

  

  Irving Ravetch
  • Up
  • Work
  • Real

• Having been on tour in countries that are extremely eco-friendly, we automatically end up doing the things that normal people do in other countries.

  

  Kaki King
  • People
  • Up
  • End

• I never set out to become 'famous.' I mean, when you're 14 you think 'I'm gonna become a writer and people will want my autograph and that'll be cool,' but you grow up and you learn that's just not how the world works. I resigned myself to the fact that I would probably never be published and if I did it probably wouldn't be a big deal.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Kids
  • Want
  • Me

• The great apologist has to have lived large and wild. If he's going to kiss the world's boo-boos and make up, he'd better plant some bruises first. A master apologizer has to be a Lord Byron, a Rick in Casablanca, a Lee Atwater, anyway.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • World
  • Great

• Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has such a negative connotation.

  

  Laura Kightlinger
  • Women
  • Say
  • Feminist

• Olympics for me is love, peace, united.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Love
  • Me
  • Peace

• My camps are always ten weeks. That's what makes me comfortable.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Me
  • Always
  • Comfortable

• All the things that most kids hated, I loved. I loved that things were asked of me and that, much to my surprise, I was able to do them. I loved the 10 o'clock bedtime. I loved the responsibility.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Kids
  • Me
  • Responsibility

• I definitely had a hard time leaving for college because I'm not much of a risk-taker.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Time
  • College
  • Risk

• It took me a lot of years on the 'Burnett' show to feel like I had earned the privilege to play in the sandbox with the grown-ups.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Play
  • Feel
  • Privilege

• Culture is best seen not as complexes of concrete behavior patterns - customs, usages, traditions, habit clusters - as has, by and large, been the case up to now, but as a set of control mechanisms - plans, recipes, rules, instructions (what computer engineers call 'programs') - for the governing of behavior.

  

  Clifford Geertz
  • Up
  • Culture
  • Control

• All along the backwater,Through the rushes tall,Ducks are a-dabbling,Up tails all!

  

  Kenneth Grahame
  • Up

• For Eid - or Raya, as the Malaysians call it - we love to shop for new clothes for the festive season. There will be open houses to go to, and Malaysians love to look good for these.

  

  Yuna
  • Clothes
  • Season
  • Shop

• Class is more important than a game.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Important
  • Game
  • Class

• Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness--how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view of things? This peephole is all I've got!

  

  Yann Martel
  • Life
  • Single

• I was in college in the '60s, and the whole feminist movement had swept me up.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
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  • Me
  • College