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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
Teacher
Kiev
Golda Meyerson
Golda Mabovich
Wrong
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Women
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Life
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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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Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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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 way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.
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My dear, old age is like an airplane flying in a storm. Once you're in it there's nothing you can do. You can't stop a plane, you can't stop a storm, you can't stop time. So you might as well take it easy, with wisdom.
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Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
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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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From Russia I didn't bring out a single happy memory, only sad, tragic ones. The nightmare of pogroms, the brutality of Cossacks charging young Socialists, fear, shrieks of terror.
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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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Those that perished in Hitler's gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.
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