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 MEIRTo be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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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 do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.
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Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
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Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
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You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
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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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Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.
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Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
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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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How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
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The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers.
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By the way, did you ever realize that if Moses would have turned right instead of left, we’d have had the oil, the Arabs would have had the sand?
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To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
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There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.
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