Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
GOLDA MEIR
The 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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Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
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Anybody who believes in something without reservation believes that this thing is right and should be, has the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them.
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I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
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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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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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We don’t want wars even when we win.
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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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It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
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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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Show me a sensible person who likes himself or herself! I know myself too well to like what I see. I know but too well that I’m not what I’d like to be.
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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.
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Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
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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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There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.
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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.
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