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the modern woman asks herself: Is there something wrong with me if my children don't fill up my life?

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
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Kiev
Golda Meyerson
Golda Mabovich
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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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Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.
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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.
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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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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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To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
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The dog that trots about finds a bone.
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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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Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.
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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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The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.
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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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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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A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
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Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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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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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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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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