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.
GOLDA MEIRWe can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
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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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Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.
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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 don’t thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.
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Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
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How can I explain the difference to me between America and Russia? the America I’ve known is a place where men on horseback escort union marchers, the Russia I’ve known is a place where men on horseback slaughter young Socialists and Jews.
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Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
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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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How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don’t know; I’ve never been a man minister.
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Being seventy is not a sin. It’s not a joy, either.
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You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
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This country exists as the fulfillment of a promise made by God Himself. It would be ridiculous to ask it to account for its legitimacy.
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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
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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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