Ruth Westheimer Quotes

#1. All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

Swami Vivekananda

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

Ruth Westheimer

#3. Don't share your fantasies unless you're sure your partner really wants to hear them.

Ruth Westheimer

#4. You can either give in to negative feelings or fight them, and I'm of the belief that you should fight them.

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#5. For some people, 'ten feet tall' is just a metaphor. For me, it's more than twice my height!

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#6. Remember, attraction is only one part of a relationship. Loyalty, commitment, responsibility and maturity make up the rest.

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#7. It's pornography for me only when it involves violence or children.

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

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#9. Testosterone levels are highest in the morning.

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

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

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#12. Enjoy the things that never happened.

Neil Gaiman

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

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#14. Talking from morning to night about sex has helped my skiing, because I talk about movement, about looking good, about taking risks.

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#15. A lesson taught with humor is a lesson retained.

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#16. Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.

A.R. Ammons

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

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#18. Sex is not a sin. Many people have complained that this is taking all the fun out of sex.

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

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#20. In the ideal State laws are few and simple, because they have been derived from certainties. In the corrupt State laws are many and confused, because they have been derived from uncertainties.

Solon

#21. Boredom is the biggest problem. The same position. Same day of the week. It becomes boring when you don't bring any added flowers home.

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

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#23. There is no scientific proof that any food increases sexual drive.

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#24. It is a catastrophe, all of this virtual being together. I think there are people who get hooked on the internet. If they need to look at explicitly sexual material to be aroused there is a problem.

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#25. Like Gallant just busted out of Goofus.

Sarah Wendell

#26. The time has come when women should pay for a gigolo. Why should only rich men have young, beautiful women? Rich women should have young, beautiful men.

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#27. She accepted the permission bestowed by passion to live entirely in the present.

Meg Rosoff

#28. Even the boy who cried wolf as right about the wolf once.

Sherry Thomas

#29. I don't like to see teenage men wearing very tight jeans. The sight of an erection belongs in the privacy of the bedroom, living room, or kitchen floor.

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#30. It's up to the man to not be offended when she tells him what she needs. He shouldn't say, "I know that!" And he shouldn't say, "The woman that I had before you had ten orgasms without her telling me anything!"

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

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#32. When it comes to sex, the most important six inches are the ones between the ears.

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#33. Skiers make the best lovers because they don't sit in front of a television like couch potatoes. They take a risk and they wiggle their behinds. They also meet new people on the ski lift.

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#34. The taste of chocolate is a sensual pleasure in itself, existing in the same world as sex ... For myself, I can enjoy the wicked pleasure of chocolate ... entirely by myself. Furtiveness makes it better.

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#35. I want people to see me or read about me and think about sex.

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#36. Sex is still the most interesting subject under the sun. People will say my wife is too tired or my husband is too tired, and I listen and I say 'go for help.'

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#37. Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir