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38 quotes by Golda Meir

Golda Meir[nb 1] (earlier Goldie Myerson, born Goldie Mabovitch, Голда Мабович; May 3, 1898 – December 8, 1978) was an Israeli teacher, kibbutznik, politician and the fourth Prime Minister of Israel. Meir was elected Prime Minister of Israel on March 17, 1969, after serving as Minister of Labour and Foreign Minister. Israel's first and the world's fourth woman to hold such an office, she was described as the "Iron Lady" of Israeli politics years...
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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... →

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

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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.

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

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

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

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The dog that trots about finds a bone.

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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.

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

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

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You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

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

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Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the... →

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