Many years ago, I went with my husband and daughter to Denmark. In those years, you could bring $400 worth of furniture without taxes. We had three people, we bought $1,200 worth of furniture.
Ruth Westheimer
Travel has always been one of the best ways to make new memories and reconnect with your loved ones.
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.
German Jews don't show their emotions in public.
I do remember all of the songs of my childhood and they helped us to cope with being orphans. But the memories of my parents in my early childhood and the solid foundations of socialisation and strong values that they gave me never left me for one day.
A friendship has to be cultivated. A friendship you have to give time.
Contraception has to be available for anybody who needs it.
There will always be issues where an abortion is necessary.
Because of my experience with the Holocaust, I don't like to lose friends.
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 want to be like Madame de Stael.
Yes, for me Hanukkah is very sad. But the life force that's in me makes it a wonderful holiday, too.
It is good to be Dr. Ruth.
I went to an Orthodox Jewish children's home that became an orphanage.
Many of the girls who were in the orphanage with me became either nurses or social workers.
At first I was against Internet dating because there are some inherent risks, but I've seen so many happy couples who've met on the Internet that I've changed my mind.
When I started the radio program in 1981, not many people were talking about sexuality. Not many people were talking about AIDS or HIV.
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.
My son told me to stop singing 'Happy Birthday' when he was 4.
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.
The early socialization of a child is crucial.
I got the Margaret Sanger award. I was kissed by President Obama.
Before I became an orphan of the Holocaust my early family life was stable. I grew up as a German Jew in Frankfurt, and I was in a household with two loving parents and an adoring grandmother who spoiled me. My mother helped my father in their wholesale business and they went to synagogue every Friday.
Every person deserves respect.
We just do not know what is normal.
I'm old-fashioned and a square.
When the first armies were formed, combat took courage, which women share equally with men, and strength, which we do not. But though I am only 4 feet 7 inches tall, with a gun in my hand I am the equal of a soldier who's 6 feet 7 - perhaps even at a slight advantage, as I make a smaller target.
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 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.
Now were it up to me, I would abolish all warfare.
I believe my soul isn't entirely German because my home is so disorderly.
I'm a very lucky mother.
If someone has gone through a lot of emotional pain, including the loss of loved ones, that person may try to build a shell around his or her feelings to protect him- or herself from the pain.
There are times when you should never give a cheater a second chance, but there also are exceptions.
Even top fashion models get critical about one certain part of their body that they do not like. So perfection is impossible.
When you feel yourself being critical, whether it is of yourself or another person, stop yourself. Look for positive aspects to admire.
It is impossible to deny that people in power face more temptations than ordinary citizens.
When some women literally throw themselves at you, it's easy to get confused and think that every woman is eager for your attentions.
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'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.
When I was in Switzerland, I still had the fantasy I could have saved my parents and family if I'd stayed in Germany. All nonsense. If they had not made the sacrifice to send their only child to Switzerland, I wouldn't be alive.
You walk into a restaurant these days, and what you see is everyone with their phone next to them. That is terrible. Instead of concentrating on the relationship, on the needs and activities and interests of the other person, they are constantly looking at their phone.
I have in my bones, and in my blood, the knowledge that you have to help the people who are persecuted.
My parents sent me to Switzerland on a Kindertransport.
People like me have to stay away from politics.
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.
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.
For many years, I didn't have a home.
I love small things. I love them.
I may have been on the cover of People and gone on 'David Letterman' and 'Arsenio Hall' because they had young audiences I wanted to talk to. But at the same time, I always did serious books or taught seminars.
