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A story once went the rounds ...

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!

Golda Meir 129 quotes

How does it feel to be a woma...

How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don't know; I've never been a man minister.

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You can get used to anything i...

You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.

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The only alternative to war is...

The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.

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You can't improve on saying no...

You can't improve on saying nothing.

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I don't want to have a bad inf...

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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If we have to have a choice be...

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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One of the first sights that s...

One of the first sights that shocked me, when I came to Israel in 1921, was an Arab turning over a field with a very primitive plow; pulling the plow were an ox and a woman. Now, if it means that we have destroyed this romantic picture by bringing in tractors, combines, and threshing machines, this is true: we have.

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Zionism and pessimism are not ...

Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.

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Show me a sensible person who ...

Show me a sensible person who likes himself or herself! I know myself too well to like what I see. I know but too well that I'm not what I'd like to be.

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Can we today measure devotion ...

Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?

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It is not a sin to be seventy ...

It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.

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Don't become cynical. Don't gi...

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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Israel itself is the strongest...

Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.

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The world hates a Jew who hits...

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

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I want to say to you, friends,...

I want to say to you, friends, that the Jewish community in Palestine is going to fight to the very end. If we have arms to fight with, we will fight with those, and if not, we will fight with stones in our hands.

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The deserts of the Middle East...

The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers.

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Once in a Cabinet we had to de...

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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But the individual was not a t...

But the individual was not a tool for something. He was the maker of tools. He was the one who must build. Even for the best purpose it is criminal to turn an individual into simply a means for some ultimate end. A society in which the dignity of the individual is destroyed cannot hope to be a decent society.

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The only way to eliminate war ...

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

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