Golda MeirThinkers

70 (age) is not so bad — Being seventy is not a sin.

Crying is to access one's full humanity. Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

Feminism is grounded not in the notion that women are better than men, but in the idea that they are certainly no worse.

Humility is completely unnecessary because no one is really that great.

Humility is often misplaced in certain people, for they are really not that great.

Israel is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.

Judaism is not just religion, but it is being part of a people that has maintained its distinct identity for more than 2,000 years, with all the pain and torment that has been inflicted upon it.

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

The Past is a thing one cannot and must not try to erase merely because it does not fit the present.

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.