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.
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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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
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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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The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers.
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There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
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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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Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.
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By the way, did you ever realize that if Moses would have turned right instead of left, we’d have had the oil, the Arabs would have had the sand?
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Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.
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Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.
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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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Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.
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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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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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Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.
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Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
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