Ruth Westheimer

Celebrity

1928-06-04

Quotes by Ruth Westheimer

• The early socialization of a child is crucial.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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• Our way is not soft grass, it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upward, forward, toward the sun.

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