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.
GOLDA MEIRWe Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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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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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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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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Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
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Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
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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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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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Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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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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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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Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.
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We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.
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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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Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.
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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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