Table of Contents:

• Foreword by Liz Carpenter
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chapter One. Identity: I Am Not Always the Same Person
  • Daughter: Gayle Hunt
  • A Woman Named Billie: Billie Grace Herring
  • My Mother's Daughter: Katherine Koonce
  • My Father's Daughter: Jo Scudder
  • A Story about Who I Am: Ruby Johnston
  • All the Things I Am: Williene Story
  • I Am Not Always the Same Person: Marilyn Zimmerman
  • Going to School: Oma Gillis
  • A European Youth: Erika Eden
  • Girls Just Didn't Go to College: Gayle Hunt
  • A Lover of Back Roads: Martha Knies
  • Gifts That I Chose for Myself: Selah Rose

• Chapter Two. Home: I Was Born in East Texas
  • I Was Born in East Texas . . .: Helen G. Burton
  • How My Mother Got Her Washing Machine: Janie Kirkpatrick
  • Keeping House for My Mother: Betty Martin
  • Courage and Little Else: Helen Ibbotson
  • Chores, Chores, Endless Chores: Mary Lou Morgette
  • A Lesson for Young Brides: Oleta Cates
  • Horses, Friends, and Cleaning Out the Stalls: Sarah McKinney
  • Aunt Hattie's House: Janice Wilkins
  • Finding Home: Grace B. Schmitt

• Chapter Three. Work: Making Something That Lasted
  • Making Something That Lasted: Kathryn Doggett
  • God Had Given Me a Brain: Gayle Hunt
  • Making My Own Way: Erma Hiltpold
  • Clerking in My Dad's General Store: Pat Simmons
  • "I'm Doing the Best I Can": Patricia Gunderlach
  • District 23, Speedway School: Rose Vrba
  • Southern Belle: A Full-Time Job: Marthanne Luzader
  • A Fitting Job: Mathilda Mimun
  • Cattle Drive: Erin Colleen Moore
  • The Autoclave: Lavern Crawford
  • My Navy Career: Joan H. Crews
  • An Office in the Courthouse: Margaret C. Long
  • Things Began to Change: Faye L. Kelly
  • My Silver Star: Billie Grace Herring
  • Just an Old Hooker: Lois Earley
  • Granny's Biscuits: Sue Kinney

• Chapter Four. Family: Grandmother and the Pirates
  • Grandmother and the Pirates: Eula Rae McCown
  • My Father and the Value of Money: Bonnie Knipp
  • Nanoo: Carole Burke
  • Grandma Maggie Helman: Joann Bynum
  • My Mother and the Pigeons: Martha Knies
  • An Unexpected Meeting: Patricia Lyón
  • William and the Outhouse: Martha Brian
  • My Brother Ray: Kathryn Doggett
  • Aminta: Amparo González
  • We All Loved Each Other: Bertie W. Wright
  • Lillian: Francys Shliff
  • Rosy: Ruby Varnon Bishop

• Chapter Five. Love: 'Til We Meet Again
  • 'Til We Meet Again: Sherlie Hurwitz
  • Love Letters: Nadeane Walker Anderson
  • Those Golden Days at Graceland: Katherine Koonce
  • How My Life Changed: Amparo González
  • To Do As I Pleased: Minnie Ree Baccus
  • A Keepsake Penny, and Love Refound: Eula Rae McCown
  • "Hey, Maud Farkle . . .": Paula Stephens-Bishop
  • Do You Believe in Fate?: Evelyn Simon
  • "I Will Promise You a Rose Garden": Val Jean Schmidt

• Chapter Six. Loss: The Strength to Survive
  • The Lost Shoes: Alice M. Short
  • The Day My Childhood Died: Ruby Varnon Bishop
  • When Daddy Died: Ruby A. Taylor
  • The Strength to Survive: Sarah Lichtman
  • Teddy: Jean Wyllys
  • Changing Places: Joyce A. Dehlin
  • Renee: Irene Luedke
  • The Day Grandma Died: Sidna Leavenworth
  • "I Should Have Cried": Lucy A. Boyea
  • Losing Martha: Bobbye Jo Barker
  • When I Think of Grace . . . : Jeanie Forsyth

• Chapter Seven. Living Fully: I Still Had My Two Dollars
  • Decoration Day, Fairy Tales, and the Ice Cream Wagon: Oma Gillis
  • I Still Had My Two Dollars: Marji Smith
  • Baseball Fever: Jane R. Peppard
  • The Best Christmas: Mary G. Warren
  • Inside a Prism: Ruby Varnon Bishop
  • My Bonneville Convertible: Pauline Carey
  • Kyky the Elephant: Margaret F. Shive
  • Outward Bound: Jeanie Forsyth
  • The Happiest Day of My Life: Erma Hiltpold
  • The Day My Daughter Walked: Mary Holder
  • I Felt like a Queen: Lorene B. Laird
  • A Summer with Granny Rylee: Pat Williamson

• Chapter Eight. Witness: Ordinary Lives, Extraordinary Events
  • Remembering War: Mathilda Mimun
  • Holocaust Survivor: Sarah Lichtman
  • "Where Is Pearl Harbor?": Lavern Crawford
  • December 7, 1941: Jean Leonard
  • How Would I Measure Up under Fire?: Eileen C. Titus
  • Rommel's Hannibal Connection: Janine M. Koch
  • Not a Dry Eye in the House: Patricia J. Click
  • When the Americans Came: Jean Wyllys
  • The Day Roosevelt Died: Bobbye Jo Barker
  • An Army Wife in Postwar Germany: Faye L. Kelly
  • An Ordinary Day: An Extraordinary Event: Wanda Heath
  • Terror: The Day MLK Died: Louise Kent
  • When the Russians Invaded Czechoslovakia: Dolores R. Muhich
  • Four Joyful Days: Agatha Barbay

• Chapter Nine. Legacies: "I Wish You Could Have Known My Grandma"
  • Family Books, Family Treasures: Helen Burnette
  • The Tapestry: Bobbye Jo Barker
  • My Grandmother's Dress: Joyce A. Dehlin
  • My Mother's Ring: Mathilda Mimun
  • My Keepsake Quilt: Mary Lou Morgette
  • The Legacy of the Two Lauras: Sue Kinney
  • Mama's Writings: Irene Luedke
  • The Other Side of Fifty: Betty Poe Howard
  • A Letter to a Young Person: Marthanne Luzader
  • "I Wish You Could Have Known My Grandma": Evelyn Simon

• Biographical Notes
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