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.
GOLDA MEIRAt 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.
GOLDA MEIRI’m sure that someday children in schools will study the history of the men who made war as you study an absurdity. They’ll be shocked, just as today we’re shocked with cannibalism.
GOLDA MEIRI must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
GOLDA MEIROne cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
GOLDA MEIRGlorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
GOLDA MEIRFashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
GOLDA MEIRThose that perished in Hitler’s gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.
GOLDA MEIRThere was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
GOLDA MEIRThe only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
GOLDA MEIRAbility hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
GOLDA MEIRYou’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
GOLDA MEIRI 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.
GOLDA MEIRWe say peace and the echo comes back from the other side, war. We dont want wars even when we win.
GOLDA MEIRWe don’t want wars even when we win.
GOLDA MEIRShow 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 MEIRHow does it feel to be a woman minister? I don’t know; I’ve never been a man minister.
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