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 MEIRWomen’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.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.
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Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
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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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We don’t thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.
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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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Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
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It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
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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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Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.
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We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.
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You can’t improve on saying nothing.
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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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Above 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.
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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.
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Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
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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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The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.
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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.
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Being seventy is not a sin. It’s not a joy, either.
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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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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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Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided – not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing.
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I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
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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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It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don’t want victories anymore.
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