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I'm a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.

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
Golda Meyerson
Golda Mabovich
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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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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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Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
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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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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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the modern woman asks herself: Is there something wrong with me if my children don't fill up my life?
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You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
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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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To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
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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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There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
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How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don't know I've never been a man minister.
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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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Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.
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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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