Ruth Westheimer

Celebrity

100 Quotes

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

Planned Parenthood is a very important part of my professional life.

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.

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.

At the age of 16 I immigrated to Palestine from Europe, where I became a member of the Haganah, the main underground army of the Jews.

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

I don't have scientifically validated data, but once two people have found each other and found interest in each other, my hypothesis would be that the relationship has a good chance of being successful.

Now were it up to me, I would abolish all warfare.

My parents sent me to Switzerland on a Kindertransport.

There will always be issues where an abortion is necessary.

Never to forget the Holocaust was not only against Jews. It was mostly against Jews but it was also against homosexuals, gypsies and, let's not forget, people with disability.

It is impossible to deny that people in power face more temptations than ordinary citizens.

Contraception has to be available for anybody who needs it.

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.

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.

When some women literally throw themselves at you, it's easy to get confused and think that every woman is eager for your attentions.

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

I'm very lucky, because it's a combination of the German, the Hebrew, the Swiss, the French, and that accent helped because as soon as people heard it they knew it was me.

If not for the Kindertransport, I would not be here today.

I got the Margaret Sanger award. I was kissed by President Obama.

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