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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

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
GOLDA MEIR

Better Job Man Success Woman
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.
GOLDA MEIR

Death Expression Hope Myself People See Sympathy
There is no such thing as a Palestinian people… It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn’t exist.
GOLDA MEIR

Country Existence Invisble People
It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.
GOLDA MEIR

Cry Discover Easy Myself People Thinking
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
The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
GOLDA MEIR

Conventional Deal History People Public Story
Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
GOLDA MEIR

Commitment Man Rape
How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
GOLDA MEIR

Death Family Lost Place Return
If only political leaders would allow themselves to feel, as well as to think, the world might be a happier place.
GOLDA MEIR

Feeling Happiness Leadership Place Politics Thinking
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
Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
GOLDA MEIR

Artist Enjoyment Glory Natural Praise Storm
The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.
GOLDA MEIR

Children Elimination Enemy Hate Love War
Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.
GOLDA MEIR

Happiness Heart Laughter Sadness
It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
GOLDA MEIR

Age Joke Sin Time
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.
GOLDA MEIR

Community Fight Friendship Hands Jew Stone
I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.
GOLDA MEIR

Affection Honesty Myself Possible Question Success
The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
GOLDA MEIR

Negotiation Peace Road War
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.
GOLDA MEIR

Creation Happiness Kind Life Trust Yourself
Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
GOLDA MEIR

Fashion Freedom Imposition
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.
GOLDA MEIR

Alive Bad Choice Death Image
Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.
GOLDA MEIR

Man Myself Talk Togetherness Woman Worst
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
Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.
GOLDA MEIR

Compatible Pessimism Togetherness
The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers.
GOLDA MEIR

Country Desert Need Place Water Weapon
I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
GOLDA MEIR

Government Management Myself Time
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.
GOLDA MEIR

Accident Cry Feeling Laughter Public
By the way, did you ever realize that if Moses would have turned right instead of left, we’d have had the oil, the Arabs would have had the sand?
GOLDA MEIR

Country Myself Right Way

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.

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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.

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