Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.
GOLDA MEIRThis country exists as the fulfillment of a promise made by God Himself. It would be ridiculous to ask it to account for its legitimacy.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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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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My dear, old age is like an airplane flying in a storm. Once you’re in it there’s nothing you can do. You can’t stop a plane, you can’t stop a storm, you can’t stop time. So you might as well take it easy, with wisdom.
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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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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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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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It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
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You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
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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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We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.
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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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You can’t improve on saying nothing.
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Being seventy is not a sin. It’s not a joy, either.
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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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This country exists as the fulfillment of a promise made by God Himself. It would be ridiculous to ask it to account for its legitimacy.
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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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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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It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.
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Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
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There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.
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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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Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided – not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing.
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We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.
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Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
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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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How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don’t know; I’ve never been a man minister.
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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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