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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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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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It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore.
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We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.
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Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your 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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Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
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The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.
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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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Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
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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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The dog that trots about finds a bone.
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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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How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
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There's no difference between one's killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It's exactly the same thing, or even worse.
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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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I want to say to you, friends, that the Jewish community in Palestine is going to fight to the very end. If we have arms to fight with, we will fight with those, and if not, we will fight with stones in our hands.
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The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.
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We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs we have no place to go.
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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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