Golda Meir

Being seventy is not a sin. ↗

— Golda Meir

#being #seventy #sin

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

— Golda Meir

#either #question #to be or not to be #you

Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short. ↗

— Golda Meir

#diffidence #falls #hits #mark #presumption

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom. ↗

— Golda Meir

#freedom #imposition #reign

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

— Golda Meir

#cold war #detente #english #fancy #french

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this. ↗

— Golda Meir

#found #having #look #men #other

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. ↗

— Golda Meir

#achievement #be happy #create #fanning #flames

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

#against #anything #bear #children #discriminated

As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing. ↗

— Golda Meir

#anything #doing #done #many #nixon

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself. ↗

— Golda Meir

#everybody #himself #poisons #takes #who