I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
GOLDA MEIRThe modern woman asks herself: Is there something wrong with me if my children don’t fill up my life?
More Golda Meir Quotes
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As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.
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There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
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We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.
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I want to say to you, friends, that the Jewish community in Palestine is going to fight to the very end. If we have arms to fight with, we will fight with those, and if not, we will fight with stones in our hands.
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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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How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
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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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There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.
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Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
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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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To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
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Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.
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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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From Russia I didn’t bring out a single happy memory, only sad, tragic ones. The nightmare of pogroms, the brutality of Cossacks charging young Socialists, fear, shrieks of terror.
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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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