To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
GOLDA MEIRHow can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.
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We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.
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My dear, old age is like an airplane flying in a storm. Once you’re in it there’s nothing you can do. You can’t stop a plane, you can’t stop a storm, you can’t stop time. So you might as well take it easy, with wisdom.
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Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.
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It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.
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Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.
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There is only one thing I hope to see before I die, and that is that my people should not need expressions of sympathy anymore.
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Women’s liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It’s men who are discriminated against. They can’t bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.
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I don’t want to have a bad influence on anybody, but there’s no point in my giving up cigarettes now. I won’t die young.
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It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don’t want victories anymore.
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I’m a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.
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We say peace and the echo comes back from the other side, war. We dont want wars even when we win.
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A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
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Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.
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We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.
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