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.
GOLDA MEIRI 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.
GOLDA MEIRMen are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
GOLDA MEIRThe deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers.
GOLDA MEIRTrust 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.
GOLDA MEIRAt 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.
GOLDA MEIRTo be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
GOLDA MEIRFashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
GOLDA MEIRAnybody who believes in something without reservation believes that this thing is right and should be, has the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them.
GOLDA MEIRIt’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.
GOLDA MEIRThe Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.
GOLDA MEIRTo be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.
GOLDA MEIRGlorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
GOLDA MEIRMy 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.
GOLDA MEIRThe only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.
GOLDA MEIRIsrael itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
GOLDA MEIRIt is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
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