Ruth Westheimer Quotes

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

I would love to be a guys' girl, but they always end up falling in love with me, so I'm a girls' girl instead. I've tried having friendly relationships with men, but it ends up being impossible, and I've been around the block too many times not to see it coming.

I get hit on so much it's not normal. I didn't realize so many men liked redheads.

I am always begging them to spare me this chasing after men.

I didn't quite get 'If I Loved You.' I didn't understand what they're saying. 'Why are they saying if? Are they flirting? Is she being coy? Does she know what she's getting into?' I didn't understand this woman.

One game that drives me crazy, is when a guy gives the girl they really like more attention, and then they feel like maybe they pressed too hard, so they back way off and start giving other women attention. I've never pulled this myself.

My thing is, when I come across somebody, when I think they're super cute or handsome, I can't play along with that because sometimes they take it as something like, 'She wants me.'

Gene told me the next day that I got it wrong. But he was not in a taxi, after an evening of total sensory overload, with the most beautiful woman in the world. I believed I did well. I detected the trick question. I wanted Rosie to like me, and I remembered her passionate statement about men treating women as objects. She was testing to see if I saw her as an object or as a person. Obviously the correct answer was the latter. ‘I haven’t really noticed,’ I told the most beautiful woman in the world.

If I tried to flirt with a woman and she didn't know who I was, she would run away.

Guys don't like girls that throw themselves at them. That's something that I've learned.

A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.

When you really don't like a guy, they're all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they're no longer interested.

I think I'm being friendly with someone and I'll sit in their lap. They think I'm flirting with them.

You can't always understand if someone's into you or not, so you should never really pursue something too far without gauging that first.

People misunderstand me.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

If a woman is into me, it usually takes me awhile to figure that out. She has to hit me over the head with it.

I am baffled by men. When they want me, I don't want them; when I want them, they don't want me.

I am a hopeless, shameless flirt.

Young, handsome men never flirt with me. I get heat from old dudes that run the parking garages.

I find there's this weird anger thing: Someone will approach me at the bar and say, 'Hey, can I buy you a drink?' And I'll say, 'No, I'm okay.' And then all of a sudden, there's this male anger flip, where they go, 'Oh, you know what? I wasn't even gonna buy you a drink, 'cause you're not even that cute anyway,' and walk away.

Men are even afraid to say, 'You look nice,' or, 'You look pretty,' when you come out of hair and makeup to walk on set. And before, men would constantly - producers would constantly say things, but that's kind of a way that they would butter the actresses up and make them feel secure.

I'm friendly - maybe that's taken as flirtatious. Which I don't mind!

A fan proposed to me several times.

I don't pursue women - they pursue me.