The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.
GOLDA MEIRWhether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
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How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
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I’m sure that someday children in schools will study the history of the men who made war as you study an absurdity. They’ll be shocked, just as today we’re shocked with cannibalism.
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The modern woman asks herself: Is there something wrong with me if my children don’t fill up my life?
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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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Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.
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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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To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.
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At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you’ve left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.
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We don’t thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.
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Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
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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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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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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
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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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