Golda Meir

Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.

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

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 have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - no alternative.

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

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.

The dog that trots about finds a bone.

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.

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.

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

The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - no ideals.

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

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

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

Being seventy is not a sin.

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

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

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