Quotes from Golda Meir

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

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

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

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 don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.

We don't thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.

Being seventy is not a sin.

Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided-not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing.

As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.

The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.

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

We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.

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.

What do you gain, Soviet Union, from this miserable policy Where is your decency Would it be a disgrace for you to give up this battle (On suppression of freedom for Jews in the USSR)

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

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

When peace comes we will perhaps in time be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our sons, but it will be harder for us to forgive them for having forced us to kill their sons. Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us.

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.

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.

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!

To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.

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

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

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