The modern woman asks herself: Is there something wrong with me if my children don’t fill up my life?
GOLDA MEIRAs President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.
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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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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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If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we’d rather be alive and have the bad image.
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I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
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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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If only political leaders would allow themselves to feel, as well as to think, the world might be a happier place.
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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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Being seventy is not a sin. It’s not a joy, either.
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Those that perished in Hitler’s gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.
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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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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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The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers.
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Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
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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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