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 -- Mama / Ntozake Shange -- 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.
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