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

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.

Every person has to be respected.

I am not an expert on that whole issue of gender.

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.

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

I tell people with children still in the house to go out once a week and talk about anything but the children. Otherwise, once you are an empty nester you might have nothing to talk about.

I'm all for any place, any way, any media that can help people connect with somebody and not be lonely.

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

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

I don't know how to play Canasta.

I have nothing against the Internet meeting places, as long as people use them intelligently.

I don't want people to be lonely. I would like them to find partners.

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

I read the horoscope, and when I like it I smile and when I don't like it, I say, 'Dr. Ruth Westheimer, what's the matter with you?'

I'm a super good shot.

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

I don't talk around issues.

I was already 50 when I started in television.

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

I am fortunate.

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

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

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.