the modern woman asks herself: Is there something wrong with me if my children don't fill up my life?

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.

We can forgive [the Arabs] for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with [the Arabs] when they love their children more than they hate us...

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!

The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers.

The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.

It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.