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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
Feminism
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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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Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
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Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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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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I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.
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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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It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.
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We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.
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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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We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs we have no place to go.
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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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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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Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.
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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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