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
funny work memorable
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.
love moving-on break-up
Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.
children women modern-woman
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.
likes self-knowledge show-me
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.
airplane flying age
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!
luxury pessimism judaism
Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
leadership reality battle
A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
feelings guilt used
You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
art knowing people
The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
mean society tools
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.
friendship fate world
We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.