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
arabs secret war weapon
We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - no alternative.
fools-and-foolishness liberation
Women's Liberation is just a lot of foolishness
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.
motivational happiness trust
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
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.
humorous israel pessimism
Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.
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.
night soldier president
I have given instructions that I be informed everytime one of our soldiers is killed, even if it is in themiddle of the night. When President Nasser leavesinstructions that he is to be awakened in the middleof the night if an Egyptian soldier is killed, there willbe peace.
time memorable positivity
I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
luxury pessimism judaism
Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
civilization munich compromise
Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
schedules half politics
...I'm a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.
palestinian zionist israeli
There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.