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.
GOLDA MEIRNot being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.
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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
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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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Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.
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You can’t improve on saying nothing.
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The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.
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How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
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Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
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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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Those that perished in Hitler’s gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.
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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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There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.
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How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don’t know; I’ve never been a man minister.
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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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A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
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