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Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.

Golda Meir

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.
GOLDA MEIR

Affection Honesty Myself Possible Question Success
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.
GOLDA MEIR

Finish Home Struggle Thinking Work Yourself
Don’t become cynical. Don’t give up hope. Don’t believe that everything is judged only by expediency. There is idealism in this world. There is human brotherhood.
GOLDA MEIR

Believe Brother Hope Ideal Judgement
If only political leaders would allow themselves to feel, as well as to think, the world might be a happier place.
GOLDA MEIR

Feeling Happiness Leadership Place Politics Thinking
The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.
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Government Ideal Reality World
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.
GOLDA MEIR

Country Himself Morning Problem Thinking Worry
I have always felt sorry for people afraid of feeling, of sentimentality, who are unable to weep with their whole heart. Because those who do not know how to weep do not know how to laugh either.
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Afraid Heart Myself People Sorry
Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
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Allow Himself Jew Luxury Pessimism
We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.
GOLDA MEIR

Bloom Growth Happiness Kind Victory
We don’t want wars even when we win.
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Battle War Win
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?
GOLDA MEIR

Country Myself Right Way
How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don’t know; I’ve never been a man minister.
GOLDA MEIR

Feeling Man Minister Myself Woman
I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
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Government Management Myself Time
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.
GOLDA MEIR

Age Man Perfection Reach Secret Wait
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.
GOLDA MEIR

Country Existence Invisble People
You can’t improve on saying nothing.
GOLDA MEIR

Improvement Talk Voice Yourself

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