Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.
GOLDA MEIR
I’m a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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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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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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The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.
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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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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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This country exists as the fulfillment of a promise made by God Himself. It would be ridiculous to ask it to account for its legitimacy.
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There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.
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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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We say peace and the echo comes back from the other side, war. We dont want wars even when we win.
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Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided – not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing.
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How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
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There is only one thing I hope to see before I die, and that is that my people should not need expressions of sympathy anymore.
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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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I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
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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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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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