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.
GOLDA MEIRIt is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.
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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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Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.
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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 modern woman asks herself: Is there something wrong with me if my children don’t fill up my life?
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One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
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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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Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.
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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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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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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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You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
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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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How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don’t know; I’ve never been a man minister.
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Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
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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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There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.
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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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To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
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Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
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We don’t want wars even when we win.
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The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
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I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
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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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Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.
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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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