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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
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Kiev
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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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How can I explain the difference to me between America and Russia?.. the America I've known is a place where men on horseback escort union marchers, the Russia I've known is a place where men on horseback slaughter young Socialists and Jews.
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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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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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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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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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Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.
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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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The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
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How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
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Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
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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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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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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...
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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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Those that perished in Hitler's gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.
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There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
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We don't want wars even when we win.
Golda Meir
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.
Golda Meir
Anybody who believes in something without reservation believes that this thing is right and should be, has the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them.
Golda Meir
