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

Golda Meir

Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
GOLDA MEIR

Artist Enjoyment Glory Natural Praise Storm
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

Accident Cry Feeling Laughter Public
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.
GOLDA MEIR

Afraid Heart Myself People Sorry
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.
GOLDA MEIR

Death Expression Hope Myself People See Sympathy
It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
GOLDA MEIR

Age Joke Sin Time
We don’t want wars even when we win.
GOLDA MEIR

Battle War Win
If only political leaders would allow themselves to feel, as well as to think, the world might be a happier place.
GOLDA MEIR

Feeling Happiness Leadership Place Politics Thinking
To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
GOLDA MEIR

Better Job Man Success Woman
Show me a sensible person who likes himself or herself! I know myself too well to like what I see. I know but too well that I’m not what I’d like to be.
GOLDA MEIR

Myself Person See Sensibility
As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.
GOLDA MEIR

Action Impossible President Thinking
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.
GOLDA MEIR

Age Man Perfection Reach Secret Wait
This country exists as the fulfillment of a promise made by God Himself. It would be ridiculous to ask it to account for its legitimacy.
GOLDA MEIR

Country Fulfill God Legal Promise
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

Country Himself Morning Problem Thinking Worry
There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.
GOLDA MEIR

Average Blame Doubt Himself Logic Man Praise
How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don’t know; I’ve never been a man minister.
GOLDA MEIR

Feeling Man Minister Myself Woman
We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.
GOLDA MEIR

Fate Friendship Natural Ourselves People World

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