"ولأول مرة منذ كنت طفلة تفزعني أصوات حوافر خيول القوقاز في روسيا، أدركت في إيفيان أنه لا يكفي للضعيف أن يعرض عدالة قضيته فقط. وهكذا فإنه إذا كان على … - Golda Meir

It isn't really important to decide when you are very young just exactly what you want to become when you grow up. It is much more important to decide on the way you want to live. If you are going to be honest with yourself and honest with your friends, if you are going to get involved in causes which are good for others, not only for yourselves, then it seems to me that that is sufficient, and maybe what you will be is only a matter of chance.

A story once went the rounds of Israel to the effect that Ben-Gurion described me as 'the only man' in his cabinet. What amused me about is that he (or whoever invented the story) thought that this was the greatest compliment that could be paid to a woman. I very much doubt that any man would have been flattered if I had said about him that he was the only woman in the government!

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