Elinor Burkett
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Golda
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2008
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So Many Enemies, So Little Time: An American Woman in All the Wrong Places
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2004
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Another Planet: A Year in the Life of a Suburban High School
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2001
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The Baby Boon: How Family-Friendly America Cheats the Childless
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2000
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A Gospel of Shame: Children, Sexual Abuse, and the Catholic Church
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1993
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The Right Women: A Journey Through the Heart of Conservative America
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1998
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Gravest Show on Earth
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1995
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Consumer Terrorism: How to Get Satisfaction When You're Being Ripped Off
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1996
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“Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.”
― Golda
― Golda
“How did she do it? “She comes clumping along with that sad, suffering face drawn with pain from her varicose veins and God knows what-all,” one old-timer said. “You rush to help her to your seat. She thanks you kindly. The next thing you know you’re dead.”
― Golda
― Golda
“I remember so well when we sat down in the chairs in the Oval Office, and the photographers came in…and we were shaking hands, and she was smiling and making the right friendly comments,” Nixon recalled. “Then the photographers left the room. She crossed her legs, lit a cigarette and said, ‘Now, Mr. President, what are you going to do about those planes that we want and we need very much?’…Golda Meir acted like a man and wanted to be treated like a man. There is no question that she was a very strong, intelligent leader in her own right.”
― Golda
― Golda
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