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.
GOLDA MEIRI don’t want to have a bad influence on anybody, but there’s no point in my giving up cigarettes now. I won’t die young.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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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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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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Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
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I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
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The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.
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Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.
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Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.
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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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You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
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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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Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.
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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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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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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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We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.
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