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Foreword / by Hillary Rodham Clinton -- The gratitude attitude -- Introduction : we were before pantyhose, penicillin, and the pill -- Before Tom -- Army brat -- Votes for women! -- At sea with General MacArthur -- Women can slay dragons -- Sibling revelry -- The great book escape -- The undiscovered country -- The bent twig -- The girl with the glass eye -- The little princess of Fort Amador -- Wellesley College -- Why send a girl to college? -- A yearn to learn -- Something only a real friend would do -- Great teachers : failure and Orson Welles -- With Tom -- Marriage, kids, and The New York times -- The little colonel's knight comes riding (in Joe Kennedy Jr.'s car) -- If you come to a fork in the road, take it -- Pregnancy and Pearl Harbor -- New York on $10 -- From magazine article to movie contract -- My husband the jokester -- Father knows best? -- Blizzard baby -- My pen pal E.B. White -- "Speak what you feel" -- What? me cook for Craig Claiborne? -- Searching for Robert Louis Stevenson -- "Here beginneth a new life" : Amherst, Massachusetts -- Rules to live by -- Mother leads the way -- Left at the gas station -- After the kids leave, the fun starts -- Grandchildren are the real payoff -- My husband the car thief -- What is really worth while? -- New York on $1,000 -- Lost in the Moscow Metro -- Landing in Ann Landers -- Years of sex -- Fifty years of sex -- There's no such thing as a twenty-five-cent cat -- Is a Harvard man smarter than a chicken? -- We quit drinking -- Nobody wants to interview Hillary -- The beginning of the end -- White House to cancer ward -- Mom and dad go to medical school -- A retirement home? never! -- The secret of moving -- Good-bye for now -- After Tom -- Making do and carrying on -- Searching for Virginia Woolf -- Searching for Ernest Hemingway. |
