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Even top fashion models get critical about one certain part of their body that they do not like. So perfection is impossible.

Young and older people need to learn relationships take time and effort.

It's good to be a widow in New York, because I can do something every night.

I went on a kibbutz for two years. I then realized I have to study. I have to learn something.

I love small things. I love them.

I am fortunate.

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

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.

I'm a Zionist who believes that every person has to have a country of their own.

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.

German Jews don't show their emotions in public.

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

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.

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.

Hugh Hefner was instrumental in my career, you know, by promoting the free-speech movement. People forget that about him.

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 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.

My mother was a very quiet woman and people say that she didn't get much of a chance to talk because my grandmother and I talked so much.

Every person deserves respect.

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