Golda Meir Children Quotations

Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.

We will have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us

It is a dreadful thing to see the dead city. Next to the port I found children, women, the old, waiting for a way to leave. I entered the houses, there were houses where the coffee and pita bread were left on the table, and I could not avoid [thinking] that this, indeed, had been the picture in many Jewish towns [i.e., in Europe, during World War II]'.

At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.

I'm sure that someday children in schools will study the history of the men who made war as you study an absurdity. They'll be shocked, just as today we're shocked with cannibalism.

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

We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.

the modern woman asks herself: Is there something wrong with me if my children don't fill up my life?

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

There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.

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.