Quotes from Ruth Westheimer

Luckily for me, I don't depend on seeing every patient who comes through my door to pay the rent, and so if someone is involved in an activity that I don't like, I just don't accept that person as a client.

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

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

I'm not a sex symbol, at least in the conventional sense.

If Congress wants to get involved in the business of morality by allowing a moment of silence in our schools, I support that. But if our representatives in Washington are truly going to be moral leaders, then they have to do more than just tell us to pray for guidance.

I hear you younger people saying how many friends they have on the Internet. That's nonsense. That's not friends, that's acquaintances. The word 'friendship' has lost its significance.

I went to an Orthodox Jewish children's home that became an orphanage.

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.

There will always be issues where an abortion is necessary.

I want to be like Madame de Stael.

I learned to assemble a rifle in the dark and was trained as a sniper so that I could hit the center of the target time after time. As it happened, I never did get into actual combat, but that didn't prevent my being severely wounded. I almost lost both my feet as a result of a bombing attack on Jerusalem.

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