Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.
GOLDA MEIRYou can’t improve on saying nothing.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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It’s no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do?.. Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.
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Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.
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We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.
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We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.
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How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don’t know; I’ve never been a man minister.
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There is no such thing as a Palestinian people… It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn’t exist.
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There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
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There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.
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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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Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.
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The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.
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Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.
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We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.
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Show me a sensible person who likes himself or herself! I know myself too well to like what I see. I know but too well that I’m not what I’d like to be.
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As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.
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