To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man. - Golda Meir

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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. - Golda Meir

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Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here. - Golda Meir

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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with. - Golda Meir

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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. - Golda Meir

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I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I'm gone which would not have happened if I had not come.

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Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either. -Golda Meir

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Even paranoids have real enemies. - Golda Meir

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Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil! - Golda Meir

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We don't thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient. - Golda Meir

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