It isn't really important to decide when you are very young just exactly what you want to become when you grow up. It is much more important to decide on the way you want to live. If you are going to be honest with yourself and honest with your friends, if you are going to get involved in causes which are good for others, not only for yourselves, then it seems to me that that is sufficient, and maybe what you will be is only a matter of chance.

Golda Meir

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We can forgive [the Arabs] for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with [the Arabs] when they love their children more than they hate us...

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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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One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it d... by Golda Meir

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

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Once in a Cabinet we had to deal with the fact that there had been an outbreak of assaults on women at night. One minister suggested a curfew; women should stay home after dark. I said, 'But it's the men who are attacking the women. If there's to be a curfew, let the men stay home, not the women.

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If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we'd rather be alive and have the bad image.

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Don't be humble... you're not that great. by Golda Meir

Don't be humble... you're not that great.

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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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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.

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The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when... by Golda Meir

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

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Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to... by Golda Meir

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.

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We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we h... by Golda Meir

We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.

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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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Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.

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A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into bat... by Golda Meir

A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

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A story once went the rounds of Israel to the effect that Ben-Gurion described me as 'the only man' in his cabinet. What amused me about is that he (or whoever invented the story) thought that this was the greatest compliment that could be paid to a woman. I very much doubt that any man would have been flattered if I had said about him that he was the only woman in the government!

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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself. by Golda Meir

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.

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The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than w... by Golda Meir

The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.

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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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Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!

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You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity. by Golda Meir

You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

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