It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don’t want victories anymore.
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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We don’t thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.
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How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don’t know; I’ve never been a man minister.
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We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.
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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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The modern woman asks herself: Is there something wrong with me if my children don’t fill up my life?
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I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
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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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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 are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
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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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Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.
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The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.
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We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.
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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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To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.
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