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.
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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You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
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The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.
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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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Being seventy is not a sin. It’s not a joy, either.
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I want to say to you, friends, that the Jewish community in Palestine is going to fight to the very end. If we have arms to fight with, we will fight with those, and if not, we will fight with stones in our hands.
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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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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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Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.
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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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To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.
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It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.
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Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
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There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.
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Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.
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Anybody who believes in something without reservation believes that this thing is right and should be, has the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them.
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