I’m a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.
GOLDA MEIRYou’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
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Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
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Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.
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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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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.
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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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The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.
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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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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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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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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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You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
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Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
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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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Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
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