127 Quotes by Ruth Westheimer

I have the habit of always saying thank you to police and guards who watch us.

I think I was fortunate that even in the children's home I had a boyfriend. How important it was, as an orphan at the age of 12, to be caressed and to be kissed and to know that there is someone who really deeply cared about me.

Many of the girls who were in the orphanage with me became either nurses or social workers.

I am not an expert on that whole issue of gender.

I'm a black-diamond skier and can dance the whole night - if I find a good partner!

I would never have dreamt that I would live in this country and that we would see swastikas painted at the door of a psychology professor at Columbia University.

There will always be issues where an abortion is necessary.

It matters a great deal that I come from a Jewish background.

I have to be true to what I think because that's my whole career.