"If we have to have a choice between dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we'd rather be alive and have the bad image."
— Golda Meir

January 1, 1970

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As quoted in As Good as Golda : The Warmth and Wisdom of Israel's Prime Minister (1970) edited by Israel Shenker and Mary Shenker, p. 26