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.
GOLDA MEIRWomen’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.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
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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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Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.
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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’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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Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.
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Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
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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 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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One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
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Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
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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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The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
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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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A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
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