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.
GOLDA MEIR
I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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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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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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Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.
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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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Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.
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Being seventy is not a sin. It’s not a joy, either.
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I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.
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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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Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.
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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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The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers.
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The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
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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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We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.
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Don’t become cynical. Don’t give up hope. Don’t believe that everything is judged only by expediency. There is idealism in this world. There is human brotherhood.
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There is only one thing I hope to see before I die, and that is that my people should not need expressions of sympathy anymore.
GOLDA MEIR