Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.
GOLDA MEIRYou can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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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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There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.
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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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Don’t become cynical. Don’t give up hope. Don’t believe that everything is judged only by expediency. There is idealism in this world. There is human brotherhood.
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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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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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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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Being seventy is not a sin. It’s not a joy, either.
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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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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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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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The modern woman asks herself: Is there something wrong with me if my children don’t fill up my life?
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Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
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Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.
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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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