The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers.
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 must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
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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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The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
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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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Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.
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Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.
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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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Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.
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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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Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
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A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
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Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
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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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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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