Ruth Westheimer Quotes

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Ruth Westheimer

Profession : Celebrity

Birth : June 4, 1928

People like me have to stay away from politics.

Ruth Westheimer

I do remember all of the songs of my childhood and they helped us to cope with being orphans. But the memories of my parents in my early childhood and the solid foundations of socialisation and strong values that they gave me never left me for one day.

Ruth Westheimer

My father taught me to study, study, study hard and he sent me to a very good Jewish school even though it was not near the house.

Ruth Westheimer

For many years, I didn't have a home.

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I love small things. I love them.

Ruth Westheimer

It is good to be Dr. Ruth.

Ruth Westheimer

I may have been on the cover of People and gone on 'David Letterman' and 'Arsenio Hall' because they had young audiences I wanted to talk to. But at the same time, I always did serious books or taught seminars.

Ruth Westheimer

I was 50 when I had my first show, so I was never on television with a short skirt or decollete; I never tried to look or be younger.

Ruth Westheimer

When I came to this country, people told me that if I wanted to teach and work here, I would have to take speech lessons to lose my accent. But it helped me greatly, because when people turned on the radio, they knew it was me.

Ruth Westheimer

Why should only rich men have young, beautiful women? Rich women should have young, beautiful men.

Ruth Westheimer

I'm never embarrassed to say, 'I don't know.'

Ruth Westheimer

I once went with my grandson to a county fair where you shoot a water pistol at the clown's mouth. We came home with twelve stuffed animals and a goldfish.

Ruth Westheimer

In 1947 and '48, everybody in then-Palestine belonged to some group. I chose the group that was the forerunner of the Israel Defense Forces.

Ruth Westheimer

The most important thing for my father was learning. Because nobody can take that away from you.

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I lived, while 1 1/2 million Jewish children died. So I have an obligation to repair the world.

Ruth Westheimer

German Jews don't show their emotions in public.

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I'm not a type of grandmother sitting in a rocking chair. I'm a lot in the theater. I'm a lot at concerts. I'm a lot at friends.' I like to go out for dinner. I don't have to be home one night a week if I don't want to.

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You see families at a restaurant and the kids are on the phone and the adults are on the phone. It's just a catastrophe.

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I love being Dr. Ruth, so I have never thought of retiring.

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I am fortunate.

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