Show me a sensible person who likes himself or herself! I know myself too well to like what I see. I know but too well that I’m not what I’d like to be.
GOLDA MEIRTo be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
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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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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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How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
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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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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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I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
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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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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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I’m a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.
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As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.
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It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
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Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
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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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