127 Quotes by Ruth Westheimer

Part of my success is because I’m very old-fashioned.

It’s pornography for me only when it involves violence or children.

There is no scientific proof that any food increases sexual drive.

I’m never embarrassed to say, “I don’t know.”

It is a catastrophe, all of this virtual being together. I think there are people who get hooked on the internet. If they need to look at explicitly sexual material to be aroused there is a problem.

For some strange reason I can put five bullets into that red thing in the middle of the target.

If you’re facing a problem, don’t tell yourself that you can’t do it. Convince yourself that you have the strength to deal with almost anything because of the way you were raised. And you do! Recognizing your core strengths is an important step toward having joie de vivre. You can count on better days to come because of the good days that came before. And you can find joy in the moment because you have the resiliency to overcome the problems that may be hanging over you.

You can’t be a risk taker and expect to win each and every time. If you could control the future, then you wouldn’t be taking any risks. And while failure leaves a bitter taste in your mouth, the sweetness of winning more than makes up for it, and you’ll never win at anything unless you take a risk in the first place.

When each generation listens to different music instead of music that keeps a culture and society together, it can end up dividing us.