Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
GOLDA MEIRHow does it feel to be a woman minister? I don’t know; I’ve never been a man minister.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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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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There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.
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There is no such thing as a Palestinian people… It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn’t exist.
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It’s no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do?.. Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.
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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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It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
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At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you’ve left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.
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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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Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.
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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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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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Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
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It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don’t want victories anymore.
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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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