Over the mountains / Gail Godwin My Lucy friend who smells like corn / Sandra Cisneros Wildflowers / Susan Minot Celia behind me / Isabel Huggan Summer fruits / Kate Simon A cold frozen day / Louise Erdrich That green and crazy summer / Carson McCullers Celia's time / Joan Chase First boyfriend / Sharon Olds Dottie meets Dick / Mary McCarthy "Forget what I just said" / Terry McMillan Me and my baby view the eclipse / Lee Smith The mountain day / Jean Stafford Flip-flops / Perri Klass Greenwich Village / Joyce Johnson My amoeba / Annie Dillard Mirrorings / Lucy Grealy Striptease / Lauren Slater The life you live (may not be your own) / J. California Cooper Goodbye to all that / Joan Didion Blueprints / Barbara Kingsolver Breathing lessons / Anne Tyler "I don't believe this" / Merrill Joan Gerber First thoughts on my second marriage / Phyllis Raphael The war begins / Alison Lurie Desire / Lynn Sharon Schwartz My ghost / Joan Gould
Are you mine? / Abby Frucht
The adoption / Fran Castan
A mother's love / Mary Gordon
Anger and tenderness / Adrienne Rich
Luciela Louise Turner / Gloria Naylor
I stand here ironing / Tillie Olsen
Not the Phil Donahue Show / Kelly Cherry
Cathy, now and then / Jill McCorkle
On the road / Shirley Abbott
Four directions / Amy Tan
Skin, where she touches me / Dorothy Allison
Silent dancing / Judith Ortiz Cofer
In my next life / Pam Houston
Ruthy and Edie / Grace Paley
Fifty is what forty used to be / Gloria Steinem
A tooth for every child / Abigail Thomas
Late loving / Mona Van Duyn
Coming of age / Carolyn Heilbrun
Miracles in the sky and on the road / Cynthia Kadohata
Mrs. Moonlight / Helen Norris
At seventy: a journal / May Sarton.
