How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don’t know; I’ve never been a man minister.
GOLDA MEIROld age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
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Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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I have always felt sorry for people afraid of feeling, of sentimentality, who are unable to weep with their whole heart. Because those who do not know how to weep do not know how to laugh either.
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To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.
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You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
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Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
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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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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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The modern woman asks herself: Is there something wrong with me if my children don’t fill up my life?
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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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Those that perished in Hitler’s gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.
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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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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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To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
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Don’t become cynical. Don’t give up hope. Don’t believe that everything is judged only by expediency. There is idealism in this world. There is human brotherhood.
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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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The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.
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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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Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.
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We don’t want wars even when we win.
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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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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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We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.
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I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.
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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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I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
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