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To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.

Golda Meir

The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.
GOLDA MEIR

Hate Jew Ourselves Pity World
There is no such thing as a Palestinian people… It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn’t exist.
GOLDA MEIR

Country Existence Invisble People
Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
GOLDA MEIR

Civilization Compromise Necessary Negotiation Value
How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don’t know; I’ve never been a man minister.
GOLDA MEIR

Feeling Man Minister Myself Woman
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

Bad Death Give Up Influence Myself Young
The modern woman asks herself: Is there something wrong with me if my children don’t fill up my life?
GOLDA MEIR

Children Life Modern Myself Woman Wrong
Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.
GOLDA MEIR

Happiness Heart Laughter Sadness
Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
GOLDA MEIR

Children Devotion Husband Measurement Ourselves
You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
GOLDA MEIR

Adversity Better Company Partner Yourself
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?
GOLDA MEIR

Country Myself Right Way
You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
GOLDA MEIR

Feeling Guilty Habit Yourself
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.
GOLDA MEIR

Age Old Plane Storm Yourself
To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
GOLDA MEIR

Better Job Man Success Woman
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.
GOLDA MEIR

Afraid Heart Myself People Sorry
Those that perished in Hitler’s gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.
GOLDA MEIR

Death Defend Jew Stand
Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.
GOLDA MEIR

Man Myself Talk Togetherness Woman Worst

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