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
humorous israel pessimism
Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.
giving-up humorous smoking
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.
funny humorous israel
Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!
humorous israel choices
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.
humorous israel victory
We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.
humorous mean sight
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.
arabs secret war weapon
We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - no alternative.
cannot delegation intimate knowledge refrain speaking unknown
My delegation cannot refrain from speaking on this question-we who have such an intimate knowledge of boxcars and of deportations to unknown destinations that we cannot be silent.
arabs children hate love peace
We will have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us
great
Don't be so humble, you're not that great.
beautiful develop forced girl handicap inner true
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.
best care honor promise
It's not an obsession, it's a devotion. My promise to her is to do this to the best of my ability. I told her, 'I will take care of you, I will honor you.'
bear liberation likely men
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.
fools-and-foolishness liberation
Women's Liberation is just a lot of foolishness