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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
Equality
Successful
Woman
Jobs
Better
Much
Men
Housework

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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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There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
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Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
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We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.
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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 way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.
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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.
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How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
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I have given instructions that I be informed everytime one of our soldiers is killed, even if it is in themiddle of the night. When President Nasser leavesinstructions that he is to be awakened in the middleof the night if an Egyptian soldier is killed, there willbe peace.
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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.
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It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do?.. Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.
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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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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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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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My dear, old age is like an airplane flying in a storm. Once you're in it there's nothing you can do. You can't stop a plane, you can't stop a storm, you can't stop time. So you might as well take it easy, with wisdom.
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You can't improve on saying nothing.
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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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A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
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