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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 Soulthis 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

Stories to
Open the Hearts and Rekindle
the Spirits of Women

Jack Canfield
Mark Victor Hansen
Jennifer Read Hawthorne
Marci Shimoff

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copyright 2012 Chicken Soup for the Soul Publishing, LLC, Jennifer Read Hawthorne and Marci Shimoff

ISBN: 978-1-4532-7910-6 (ePub)

Cover design by Andrea C. Uva

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Contents

Marsha Arons

Bobbie Lippman

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

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

Elinor Daily Hall