“Not only through her magnificent career, by which she ‘made a name for herself,’ as they say, but because of the tremendous compassion, sensitivity, and humanity underneath her powerful personality.”

“I said, ‘Ruth. I have always been honored to be a part of KCRW. But to now know that I have been part of your honoring your son all these years. I can't believe it.’”

“A one-of-a-kind who created public radio’s most dazzling station! A tough cookie with an unerring eye for talent!”

“As we started talking she stopped us. ‘Forget about it, I hate computers.’”

“That meeting was the beginning of one of my most important, lasting and meaningful relationships.:

“Her caring, impassioned, urgent, disentangled voice. It’s still in my head.”

“Ruth’s ability to turn any context into an appeal for funds was poetic, it was over the top, it took our breath away with both her chutzpah and her acumen, and it was memorable for our lifetimes.”

“A force of nature can’t be turned off, it can only be redirected.”

“Both Ruth and Jack Hirschman became pivotal in my life as an artist.”

“She had this amazing capacity of getting me to describe every detail of growing up in a family of survivors and I could see in her eyes that she was taking it all in.”

“Suddenly, though, everything was brought to a halt by the sound of shattering glass. Someone had hurled something onto the porch through the plate glass window.”

"Hmm, Edward, you have a funny way of talking about art. I think you should try to do it on the radio..”

“She created KCRW by the sheer force of her intellect and interest.”

“Almost all the guests were Holocaust survivors and their families.”

“Ruth was a leader because people wanted to go where she was.”

“…and KCRW became part of National Public Radio—all due to Ruth’s vision.”

“The front door opened, looking neither to the left or right, with a fixed determined look, fashionably dressed and carrying a briefcase, she swept though Master Control and disappeared into the office. "Who is that?", I asked. Someone replied: ‘That's Ruth Hirschman. She was with KPFK. Perhaps she's our new General Manager". So began the saga of the "Station that Ruth built’”.

“I am a different person from my time working with Ruth and forever grateful for that she included me in one of the greatest and most successful broadcast experiments ever.”