How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don’t know; I’ve never been a man minister.
GOLDA MEIRTrust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.
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You can’t improve on saying nothing.
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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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It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.
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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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How can I explain the difference to me between America and Russia? the America I’ve known is a place where men on horseback escort union marchers, the Russia I’ve known is a place where men on horseback slaughter young Socialists and Jews.
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How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
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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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Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.
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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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The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
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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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There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
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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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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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