I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
GOLDA MEIRArab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided – not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.
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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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The modern woman asks herself: Is there something wrong with me if my children don’t fill up my life?
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I don’t want to have a bad influence on anybody, but there’s no point in my giving up cigarettes now. I won’t die young.
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How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don’t know; I’ve never been a man minister.
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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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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 not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
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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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It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.
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One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
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We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.
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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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You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
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We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.
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