Golda Meir

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

"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."

"The dog that trots about finds a bone."

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

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

"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."

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

"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."