I’m a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.
GOLDA MEIRAbove all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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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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Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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This country exists as the fulfillment of a promise made by God Himself. It would be ridiculous to ask it to account for its legitimacy.
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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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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.
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The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
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I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
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The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.
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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.
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You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
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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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The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.
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The modern woman asks herself: Is there something wrong with me if my children don’t fill up my life?
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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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We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.
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