Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.
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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The modern woman asks herself: Is there something wrong with me if my children don’t fill up my life?
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Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.
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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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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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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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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 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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To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
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Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
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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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If only political leaders would allow themselves to feel, as well as to think, the world might be a happier place.
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I want to say to you, friends, that the Jewish community in Palestine is going to fight to the very end. If we have arms to fight with, we will fight with those, and if not, we will fight with stones in our hands.
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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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Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
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