Ruth Westheimer

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

— Ruth Westheimer

I was already 50 when I started in television.

— Ruth Westheimer

Don't stint on foreplay - or afterplay. Be inventive!

— Ruth Westheimer

My parents sent me to Switzerland on a Kindertransport.

— Ruth Westheimer

Contraception has to be available for anybody who needs it.

— Ruth Westheimer

A lesson taught with humor is a lesson retained.

— Ruth Westheimer

People like me have to stay away from politics.

— Ruth Westheimer

I worked at Columbia University's School of Public Health.

— Ruth Westheimer

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

— Ruth Westheimer

I am a very good sniper, and I can put five bullets into that red circle and I know how to throw…

— Ruth Westheimer

Because of my experience with the Holocaust, I don't like to lose friends.

— Ruth Westheimer

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

— Ruth Westheimer

I was one of the first ones to participate in fundraisers for AIDS.

— Ruth Westheimer

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

— Ruth Westheimer

I am worried that the next generation will not be able to have a real conversation.

— Ruth Westheimer

Why should only rich men have young, beautiful women? Rich women should have young, beautiful men.

— Ruth Westheimer

I think I was fortunate that even in the children's home I had a boyfriend. How important it was, as an orphan…

— Ruth Westheimer

My mother was a very quiet woman and people say that she didn't get much of a chance to talk because my…

— Ruth Westheimer

I'm very lucky, because it's a combination of the German, the Hebrew, the Swiss, the French, and that accent helped because as…

— Ruth Westheimer

It's up to the man to not be offended when she tells him what she needs. He shouldn't say, "I know that!"…

— Ruth Westheimer

Skiers make the best lovers because they don't sit in front of a television like couch potatoes. They take a risk and…

— Ruth Westheimer

I don't like to see teenage men wearing very tight jeans. The sight of an erection belongs in the privacy of the…

— Ruth Westheimer

I tell people with children still in the house to go out once a week and talk about anything but the children.…

— Ruth Westheimer

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

— Ruth Westheimer

I don't let people call me before 9 A.M.

— Ruth Westheimer

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

— Ruth Westheimer

Testosterone levels are highest in the morning.

— Ruth Westheimer

Don't criticize in the sack. Discuss constructively later.

— Ruth Westheimer

We just do not know what is normal.

— Ruth Westheimer

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

— Ruth Westheimer

I don't know how to play Canasta.

— Ruth Westheimer

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

— Ruth Westheimer

I don't believe in honesty at all costs.

— Ruth Westheimer

I want to be like Madame de Stael.

— Ruth Westheimer

An orgasm is just a reflex, like a sneeze.

— Ruth Westheimer

There will always be issues where an abortion is necessary.

— Ruth Westheimer

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

— Ruth Westheimer

My favorite animal is the turtle. The reason is that in order for the turtle to move, it has to stick its…

— Ruth Westheimer

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

— Ruth Westheimer

Tel Aviv, with its young Olim community, is the sexiest thing on the entire planet.

— Ruth Westheimer