You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
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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It’s no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do?.. Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.
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If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we’d rather be alive and have the bad image.
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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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We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.
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Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.
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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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There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.
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Women’s liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It’s men who are discriminated against. They can’t bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.
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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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We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.
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Being seventy is not a sin. It’s not a joy, either.
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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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It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.
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To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
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