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 MEIROld age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
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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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Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
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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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Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.
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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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You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
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Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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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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