Women’s Liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It’s the men who are discriminated against. They can’t bear children. And no one’s likely to do anything about that.
—Golda Meir
Topics: Women, Feminism, Mothers, Men
Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
—Golda Meir
Topics: Control, Authority, One liners
We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.
—Golda Meir
Topics: Victory
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.
—Golda Meir
Topics: Difficulty
One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
—Golda Meir
Topics: Past and Present, Lessons from The past
Not being beautiful was the true blessing… Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.
—Golda Meir
Topics: Blessings, Opportunity, Silver Linings
I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
—Golda Meir
Anybody who believes in something without reservation, believes that this thing is right and should be, has the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them.
—Golda Meir
Topics: Purpose
To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.
—Golda Meir
I want to be able to live without a crowded calendar. I want to be able to read a book without feeling guilty, or go to a concert when I like.
—Golda Meir
Topics: Opportunities, Reality
Don’t be so humble, you’re not that great.
—Golda Meir
Topics: Great, Humility
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
—Golda Meir
Topics: Worry
Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
—Golda Meir
Topics: Fashion
We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.
—Golda Meir
Topics: Nationalism, Nation, Nationality, Nationalities
Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
—Golda Meir
Topics: Jews, Judaism, Luxury, Religion
A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
—Golda Meir
Topics: Battle, Power, Leaders, Leadership
Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.
—Golda Meir
Topics: Men, Women, Men & Women, Feminism
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do. You can’t stop the plane, you can’t stop the storm, you can’t stop time. So one might as well accept it calmly, wisely.
—Golda Meir
Topics: Strength, Aging, Age, Flying
Being seventy is not a sin.
—Golda Meir
Topics: Aging, Age
It’s no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do?. Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.
—Golda Meir
Topics: Commitment, Grief, Vision, Crying
I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.
—Golda Meir
Topics: Success, Right, Rightness
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