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

Golda Meir

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Golda Meir
Age: 80 †
Born: 1898
Born: May 3
Died: 1978
Died: December 8
Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Politician
Teacher
Kiev
Golda Meyerson
Golda Mabovich
Successful
Woman
Jobs
Better
Much
Men
Housework
Equality

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I have always felt sorry for people afraid of feeling, of sentimentality, who are unable to weep with their whole heart. Because those who do not know how to weep do not know how to laugh either.
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There is only one thing I hope to see before I die, and that is that my people should not need expressions of sympathy anymore.
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It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.
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Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided - not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing.
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It is not only a matter, I believe, of religious observance and practice. To me, being Jewish means and has always meant being proud to be 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.
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The dog that trots about finds a bone.
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the modern woman asks herself: Is there something wrong with me if my children don't fill up my life?
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There is no such thing as a Palestinian people... It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn't exist.
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If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we'd rather be alive and have the bad image.
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Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.
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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
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At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.
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It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
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We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.
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Don't become cynical. Don't give up hope. Don't believe that everything is judged only by expediency. There is idealism in this world. There is human brotherhood.
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Once in a Cabinet we had to deal with the fact that there had been an outbreak of assaults on women at night. One minister suggested a curfew women should stay home after dark. I said, 'But it's the men who are attacking the women. If there's to be a curfew, let the men stay home, not the women.
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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.
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The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
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Those that perished in Hitler's gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.
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I'm a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.
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