You can’t improve on saying nothing.
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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Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
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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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There is no such thing as a Palestinian people… It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn’t exist.
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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
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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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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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Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.
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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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Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
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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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Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
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You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
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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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It’s no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do?.. Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.
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The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers.
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