black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.

Golda Meir

We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.
GOLDA MEIR

Children Forgiveness Kill Ourselves War Yourself
If only political leaders would allow themselves to feel, as well as to think, the world might be a happier place.
GOLDA MEIR

Feeling Happiness Leadership Place Politics Thinking
Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided – not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing.
GOLDA MEIR

Country Division Place
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.
GOLDA MEIR

Children Foolishness Liberty Oneself Woman
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

List Myself Routine Schedule Slave
Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
GOLDA MEIR

Children Devotion Husband Measurement Ourselves
If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we’d rather be alive and have the bad image.
GOLDA MEIR

Alive Bad Choice Death Image
Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
GOLDA MEIR

Civilization Compromise Necessary Negotiation Value
My dear, old age is like an airplane flying in a storm. Once you’re in it there’s nothing you can do. You can’t stop a plane, you can’t stop a storm, you can’t stop time. So you might as well take it easy, with wisdom.
GOLDA MEIR

Age Easy Fly Old Storm Time Wisdom Yourself
We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.
GOLDA MEIR

Jew Place Secret Struggle Weapon
It’s no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do?.. Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.
GOLDA MEIR

Accident Cry Feeling Laughter Public
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.
GOLDA MEIR

Age Old Plane Storm Yourself
The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.
GOLDA MEIR

Government Ideal Reality World
How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don’t know; I’ve never been a man minister.
GOLDA MEIR

Feeling Man Minister Myself Woman
To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
GOLDA MEIR

Better Job Man Success Woman
It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.
GOLDA MEIR

Cry Discover Easy Myself People Thinking

You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Golda Meir Quotes