I 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.
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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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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We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.
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Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
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One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
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I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
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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 was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
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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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Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.
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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 don’t want wars even when we win.
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We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.
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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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There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.
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There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.
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