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How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don't know I've never been a man minister.

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
Doe
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Men
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Feminism
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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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To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
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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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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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We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs we have no place to go.
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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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We don't want wars even when we win.
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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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The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.
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Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
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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 say peace and the echo comes back from the other side, war. We dont want wars even when we win.
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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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