Being seventy is not a sin. It’s not a joy, either.
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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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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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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It isn’t enough to believe in something; you have to have the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them, to struggle.
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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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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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The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.
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We don’t want wars even when we win.
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I don’t want to have a bad influence on anybody, but there’s no point in my giving up cigarettes now. I won’t die young.
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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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To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.
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Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.
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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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It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.
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The modern woman asks herself: Is there something wrong with me if my children don’t fill up my life?
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Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
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