Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse. — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be. — Golda Meir Compromise Copy Share Image
Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values. — Golda Meir Civilization Copy Share Image
The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied. — Golda Meir Hate Copy Share Image
The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations. — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
the modern woman asks herself: Is there something wrong with me if my children don't fill up my life? — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do. — Golda Meir Age Copy Share Image
Anybody who believes in something without reservation believes that this thing is right and should be, has the stamina to meet obstacles… — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of… — Golda Meir Achievement Copy Share Image
Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as… — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do?… — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
I have always felt sorry for people afraid of feeling, of sentimentality, who are unable to weep with their whole heart. Because… — Golda Meir Feelings Copy Share Image
I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold… — Golda Meir Cold Copy Share Image
I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it… — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before… — Golda Meir Egypt Copy Share Image
A story once went the rounds of Israel to the effect that Ben-Gurion described me as 'the only man' in his cabinet.… — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
I have given instructions that I be informed everytime one of our soldiers is killed, even if it is in themiddle of… — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
America is a great country. It has many shortcomings, many social inequalities, and it's tragic that the problem of the blacks wasn't… — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
It is a dreadful thing to see the dead city. Next to the port I found children, women, the old, waiting for… — Golda Meir Bread Copy Share Image
You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty. — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children. — Golda Meir Children Copy Share Image
Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys. — Golda Meir Applause Copy Share Image
How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don't know; I've never been a man minister. — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively. — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader. — Golda Meir Battle Copy Share Image
It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think. — Golda Meir Comedy Copy Share Image
Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either. — Golda Meir Comedy Copy Share Image
Moses dragged us through the desert to the one place in the Middle East where there is no oil. — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to. — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short. — Golda Meir Ability Copy Share Image
The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - no ideals. — Golda Meir Government Copy Share Image
There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel. — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
I'm a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour. — Golda Meir Diaries Copy Share Image
It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore. — Golda Meir Copy Share Image