My LifeThis is Golda Meir's long-awaited personal and moving story of her life. For the first time, we experience through her own words how it happened that this amazing woman, born in Russia and brought up in Milwaukee, became the prime minister of Israel and one of the political giants of our time without ever losing the warmth and informality for which she is justly celebrated. She herself describes her career as Israel's labor minister, foreign minister, and finally prime minister, against the background of her conflicting roles as a wife and as a mother. This personal story of her own life inevitably reflects also the story of Israel itself -- and of its struggle to survive -- culminating in what was for Golda Meir the most desperate period of all, the terrible days of the Yom Kippur War of 1973. - Jacket flap. |
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Page 140
... talk like a man , and no one weeps . " All I could say lamely was : " I'm sorry , but I really can't talk any other way . " Although she could see that I was dead tired , she felt she had a mission , and she sat there for that precious ...
... talk like a man , and no one weeps . " All I could say lamely was : " I'm sorry , but I really can't talk any other way . " Although she could see that I was dead tired , she felt she had a mission , and she sat there for that precious ...
Page 151
... talk about all sorts of things - not just the big po- litical or economic issues , but about people , about ourselves and our families . But not Ben - Gurion . It never entered my mind , for instance , to call up Ben - Gurion and say ...
... talk about all sorts of things - not just the big po- litical or economic issues , but about people , about ourselves and our families . But not Ben - Gurion . It never entered my mind , for instance , to call up Ben - Gurion and say ...
Page 152
... talk to anyone . Then Chagall fell in love with a girl , and they went together for years , but he couldn't ever talk to her . When he left Vitebsk , she waited for him , and he wanted to write to her and ask her to mar- ry him ; but he ...
... talk to anyone . Then Chagall fell in love with a girl , and they went together for years , but he couldn't ever talk to her . When he left Vitebsk , she waited for him , and he wanted to write to her and ask her to mar- ry him ; but he ...
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