Golda Meir
Golda Meir
Golda Meirwas an Israeli teacher, kibbutznik, stateswoman and politician and the fourth Prime Minister of Israel...
NationalityIsraeli
ProfessionWorld Leader
Date of Birth3 May 1898
CityKiev, Ukraine
CountryIsrael
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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.
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Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse.
dog bones
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
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Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.
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the modern woman asks herself: Is there something wrong with me if my children don't fill up my life?
men curfew
Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
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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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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.
men israel doubt
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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The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.
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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
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A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
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You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.