We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.
GOLDA MEIRTo be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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You can’t improve on saying nothing.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
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We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.
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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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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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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
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Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.
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Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.
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