Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
GOLDA MEIRThose who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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I’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.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
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Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
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My dear, old age is like an airplane flying in a storm. Once you’re in it there’s nothing you can do. You can’t stop a plane, you can’t stop a storm, you can’t stop time. So you might as well take it easy, with wisdom.
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You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
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It isn’t enough to believe in something; you have to have the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them, to struggle.
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It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don’t want victories anymore.
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Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
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