Canfield Jack - Chicken soup for the womans soul : 101 stories to open the hearts and rekindle the spirits of women

What a delightful treat! Take a break to read a few stories from Chicken Soup for the Womans Soul. It will add more joy and love to your day.

Gladys Knight
singer, entertainer

At last, a Chicken Soup for women! It touched all of my emotionsI laughed, I cried, I was inspired. Thank you for touching my female soul.

Olivia Newton-John
entertainer

Chicken Soup for the Womans Soul is a fabulous collection of inspiring stories for women. What a phenomenal way to connect with other women! This book will definitely move your heart and uplift your spirit!

Ann W. Richards
former governor of Texas

As women, we give so much of our hearts and souls to others. Chicken Soup for the Womans Soul will fill you back up again with love, joy and inspiration, and help you celebrate your magical female spirit.

Barbara DeAngelis
author, Real Moments

It is not very often that one reads a book that entertains, uplifts and moves one to tears. Chicken Soup for the Womans Soul is one of those books. I highly recommend it.

Susan Jeffers, Ph.D.
author, Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway and
End the Struggle and Dance with Life

I loved Chicken Soup for the Womans Soul this edition of the Chicken Soup books has particularly touched me! Please keep writing more, as Ive grown to depend on these books throughout all of my many hours on airplanes!

Daisy Fuentes
model, actress, spokesperson

These stories remind us what it truly means to be a woman or girl in todays complex worldto have the personal courage, self-esteem and mentors who will inspire us to reach our dreams. Every busy working woman should take a few minutes out of her day to read these stories. They will refresh, inspire and bring balance to the day!

Leslie Smith
executive director, National Association for Female
Executives Womens Foundation

This serving of Chicken Soup for the Womans Soul has the power to heal the common cold of the human heart.

Margareta Arvidsson Cederroth
former Miss Universe

This beautiful collection of stories proclaims the richness of a tapestry of experience woven from the lives of women. These stories are refreshing and insightful; they help us become more self-aware and see with greater clarity those simple things that give meaning to our lives.

Ellen Greene
classics professor, University of Oklahoma

Reading Chicken Soup for the Womans Soul is an invitation to connect with what is best about our lives faith, hope, charity and love. Ill take two helpings pleaseone for me and one for a friend!

Susan B. Wilson

CHICKEN SOUP
FOR THE
WOMANS SOUL

101 Stories to
Open the Hearts and Rekindle
the Spirits of Women

Jack Canfield
Mark Victor Hansen
Jennifer Read Hawthorne
Marci Shimoff

Health Communications, Inc.
Deerfield Beach, Florida

www.hcibooks.com
www.chickensoup.com

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Chicken soup for the womans soul: 101 stories to open the hearts and rekindle the spirits of women / [compiled by] Jack Canfield et al.

p. cm.

eISBN-13: 978-0-7573-9737-0 (ebook) eISBN-10: 0-7573-9737-9 (ebook)

1. WomenConduct of lifeAnecdotes. I. Canfield, Jack (date).

BJ1610.C522 1996 96-24700

158.12dc20 CIP

1996 John T. Canfield and Hansen and Hansen LLC

All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the written permission of the publisher.

HCI, its logos and marks are trademarks of Health Communications, Inc.

Publisher:	Health Communications, Inc.
3201 S.W. 15th Street
Deerfield Beach, FL 334428190

R-09-07

Cover re-design by Lawna Patterson Oldfield

Phenomenal Woman

Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.Im not cute or built to suit a fashion models sizeBut when I start to tell them,They think Im telling lies.I say,Its in the reach of my arms,The span of my hips,The stride of my step,The curl of my lips.Im a womanPhenomenally.Phenomenal woman,Thats me.
I walk into a roomJust as cool as you please,And to a man,The fellows stand orFall down on their knees.Then they swarm around me,A hive of honey bees.I say,Its the fire in my eyes,And the flash of my teeth,The swing in my waist,And the joy in my feet.Im a womanPhenomenally.Phenomenal woman,Thats me.
Men themselves have wonderedWhat they see in me.They try so muchBut they cant touchMy inner mystery.When I try to show themThey say they cant see.I say,Its in the arch of my back,The sun of my smile,The ride of my breasts,The grace of my style.Im a womanPhenomenally.Phenomenal woman,Thats me.
Now you understandJust why my heads not bowed.I dont shout or jump aboutOr have to talk real loud.When you see me passingIt ought to make you proud.I say,Its in the click of my heels,The bend of my hair,The palm of my hand,The need for my care.Cause Im a womanPhenomenally.Phenomenal woman,Thats me.

Maya Angelou

W ith love we dedicate this book to
the 2.9 billion phenomenal women of the world.
May these stories touch your hearts
and inspire your souls.

We also dedicate this book to our parents,
Ellen Taylor and Fred Angelis, Una and Paul Hansen,
Maureen and Brooks Read, and Louise and
Marcus Shimoff, for the extraordinary gifts of
love and life you have given us.

Contents

Marsha Arons

Bobbie Lippman

Leo Buscaglia

Dan Clark

Sheryl Nicholson

David Farrell

Betty Aboussie Ellis

Dan Clark

Marsha Arons

Stephanie Bullock

Sandy Ezrine

Phyllis Volkens

Page Lambert

Louise Shimoff

Reminisce magazine

Oprah Winfrey

Roberta L. Messner

The Best of Bits & Pieces

Robert Fulghum

Marjorie Wall

Philip Chard

Lynn Robertson

Edgar Bledsoe

Jennifer Read Hawthorne

Charlotte Ward

Barbara K. Bassett

Fran Capo

Lynn Rogers Petrak

Linda Jessup

Kathie Lee Gifford and Stacey Nasalroad

Pat Bonney Shepherd

The Best of Bits & Pieces

Alison Lambert with Jennifer Rosenfeld

Carol Price

Patricia Lorenz

Cathy Downs

More Sowers Seeds

Diana Golden

Laurie Waldron

Joan Fountain with Carol Kline

Jean Bole

K. M. Jenkins

Jennifer Read Hawthorne

Jane Wells

Rebecca Christian

Dave Barry

Elinor Daily Hall

Elaine Reese

Maj. Sullivan Ballou

Linda Ellerbee

Jeanne Marie Laskas

Dale Hanson Bourke

Diane Loomans

Author Unknown

Lois Krueger

The Best of Bits & Pieces

Joan Beck

Mary Ann Detzler

Author Unknown

Patty Hansen

Sharon Nicola Cramer

Gina Barrett Schlesinger

Donna Wick

Andy Skidmore

Beverly M. Bartlett

Dan Clark

Christine Harris-Amos with Cliff Marsh

Melody Arnett

Rosemarie Giessinger

Grazina Smith

Carol Kline with Jean Harper

Be? Rev. Teri Johnson

Dolly Parton

Sue Augustine

Liah Kraft-Kristaine

Charles Slack

Liah Kraft-Kristaine

Barbara Haines Howett

Teresa Bloomingdale

Beverly Gemigniani with Carol Kline

Lillian Darr

Bessie Delaney

Kim Miller

Maya Angelou

The Best of Bits & Pieces

K. Lynn Towse with Mary L. Towse

Mary L. Miller

K. Bernard

Sue West

Maureen Read

Susan B. Wilson

Suzanne Thomas Lawlor

Christy Carter Koski

Kay Cordell Whitaker

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