Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.
GOLDA MEIRHow does it feel to be a woman minister? I don’t know; I’ve never been a man minister.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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I’m sure that someday children in schools will study the history of the men who made war as you study an absurdity. They’ll be shocked, just as today we’re shocked with cannibalism.
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My dear, old age is like an airplane flying in a storm. Once you’re in it there’s nothing you can do. You can’t stop a plane, you can’t stop a storm, you can’t stop time. So you might as well take it easy, with wisdom.
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How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
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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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The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.
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Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
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Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
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Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.
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You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
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I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
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Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.
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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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To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.
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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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There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.
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