Laura Schlessinger Quotes

If you are too busy in your church activities to take care of your family, then perhaps we had better find something else for you to do.

Sacrificing your relationship for your career sounds noble and romantic from the outside, but the reality is that it can create a pattern of self-destruction that will ultimately burn you out on the career you've worked so hard to build. It's a trap and, for some, an easy way out of having to maintain relationships under stress.

There's always going to be a ball up in the air, and what I try to do is make sure that ball is never the kids. If that means sacrificing a social event or having fewer work commitments, it's worth it.

My children come first and the career comes in around that.

There's a definition of narcissism that when a parent is narcissistic, instead of the child seeing himself reflected in the mother's face and the mother's joy, the child of the narcissistic parent feels like, 'What can I do to make her okay, to make her happy?'

When you're filming, you work 19-hour days and you know more about what's going on with your crew and co-workers than you do with your husband. You're away, you miss things. It's taxing. Relationships fail because of it.

I think somebody ought to do a survey as to how many great, important men have quit to spend time with their families who spent any more time with their family.

I feel my family's needs are a priority. I'm not comfortable with the idea of serving the many and ignoring my family.

There's an internal battle. I need to work, I need to work, I need to work and I need to be home with my kids and the kids win.

I have always been clear that cinema is not my priority and that my family is.

Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.

In the past, I've thrown myself into work so much there's been very little room for anything else.

I'm so wrapped up in my work that it's often impossible to consider other things in my life. My marriage ended in divorce because of this, my relationship with Holly has suffered by this.

The kids get cheated out of a lot of times with their dad. They were good about it.

As wonderful as being on stage is, family comes first.

The hardest thing about working with your partner is that the work starts to become first.

If there's a rift in the marriage - if someone feels neglected, frustrated, tempted by others, or unsure - then trouble can easily arise.

Like so many women, I was living out the unlived life of my mother - so I wouldn't be her. But the price I paid was that I distanced myself internally.

I put my family first, and that's why for a long time, you didn't see me dating or hear about me dating or hear about me out. I had other focuses in my life, and that would be my family and my work.

You're always going to feel like you're catching up, and part of that is just balancing work and motherhood and the whole feeling of needing to please, which I do think girls and women feel more than men.

If I tell a man he needs to quit his soul-sucking job, he has to go home and fight with his wife or fight with his parents and fight with his in-laws and fight with everybody, because men aren't supposed to be happy; they're supposed to do well.

Tom Bradford is a lot like the real me. He's a man who always put his career second to his family. As long as everything was OK at home, he was OK, too.

It's the best thing ever - I love being a mom. This is my only child. My career was a priority earlier in my life, but now my son is definitely the priority.

I live for my children, so my number one rule is I won't go away from home for more than two weeks.

I've always tried to fit what I do professionally into my family, rather than the other way around.