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

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We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go. - 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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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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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 or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be. - Golda Meir

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I must govern the clock, not be governed by it. -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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The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - no ideals. - Golda Meir

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I must govern the clock, not be governed by it. -Golda Meir

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