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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.

Golda Meir

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.
GOLDA MEIR

Beautiful Blessing Development Myself Resource True
Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
GOLDA MEIR

Children Devotion Husband Measurement Ourselves
You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
GOLDA MEIR

Feeling Guilty Habit Yourself
A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
GOLDA MEIR

Battle Hesitation Himself Leadership Nation
It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don’t want victories anymore.
GOLDA MEIR

Deep Pay True Victory War Win
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.
GOLDA MEIR

Age Man Perfection Reach Secret Wait
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.
GOLDA MEIR

Achievement Creation Flame Happiness Kind Life Possible Trust Yourself
Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
GOLDA MEIR

Ability Fall Mark Short
We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.
GOLDA MEIR

Jew Place Secret Struggle Weapon
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.
GOLDA MEIR

Fear Happiness Memories Myself Terror Tragedy Yourself
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.
GOLDA MEIR

Children Foolishness Liberty Oneself Woman
How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
GOLDA MEIR

Death Family Lost Place Return
Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided – not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing.
GOLDA MEIR

Country Division Place
We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.
GOLDA MEIR

Forgiveness Kill Son War Yourself
It isn’t enough to believe in something; you have to have the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them, to struggle.
GOLDA MEIR

Believe Enough Obstacle Struggle
How can I explain the difference to me between America and Russia? the America I’ve known is a place where men on horseback escort union marchers, the Russia I’ve known is a place where men on horseback slaughter young Socialists and Jews.
GOLDA MEIR

Difference Explanation Jew Man Myself Place Young

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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