Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.
GOLDA MEIRThe modern woman asks herself: Is there something wrong with me if my children don’t fill up my life?
More Golda Meir Quotes
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Anybody who believes in something without reservation believes that this thing is right and should be, has the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them.
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There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.
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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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Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
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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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By the way, did you ever realize that if Moses would have turned right instead of left, we’d have had the oil, the Arabs would have had the sand?
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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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You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
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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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Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided – not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing.
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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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Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
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If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we’d rather be alive and have the bad image.
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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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Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
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How can I explain the difference to me between America and Russia? the America I’ve known is a place where men on horseback escort union marchers, the Russia I’ve known is a place where men on horseback slaughter young Socialists and Jews.
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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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It isn’t enough to believe in something; you have to have the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them, to struggle.
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We don’t want wars even when we win.
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Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
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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’m sure that someday children in schools will study the history of the men who made war as you study an absurdity. They’ll be shocked, just as today we’re shocked with cannibalism.
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We don’t thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.
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The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.
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Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
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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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