Quotes by Golda Meir

“One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.”

“Don't be so humble - you are not that great.”

“Let me tell you the one thing I have against Moses. He took us forty years into the desert in order to bring us to the one place in the Middle East that has no oil!”

“Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.”

“Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either”

“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...”

“To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.”

“Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.”

“Being seventy is not a sin.”

“Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.”

“I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.”

“Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse.”

“The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.”

“A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.”

“Don't be humble... you're not that great.”

“Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.”

“The dog that trots about finds a bone.”

“I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.”

“I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.”

“There is no Zionism except the rescue of Jews.”