This fresh serving of "Chicken Soup" stories for and about women features contributions from Mary Kay Ash, Leo Buscaglia, Robert Fulghum, Bessie Delaney, Erma Bombeck, and others.

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- On Love: -- White gardenia / Marsha Arons -- Words from the heart / Bobbie Lippman -- Mama's soup pot / Leo Buscaglia -- Just in time / Dan Clark -- Gifts of the heart / Sheryl Nicholson -- Other woman / David Farrell -- Ramona's touch / Betty Aboussie Ellis -- Are you God? / Dan Clark -- Electric candlesticks / Marsha Arons -- More than a scholarship / Stephanie Bullock -- It couldn't hurt / Sandy Ezrine -- Good night kiss / Phyllis Volkens -- Gifts / Page Lambert -- 1,716 letters / Louise Shimoff -- Martha's secret ingredient / Reminisce magazine -- On Attitude And Self-Esteem: -- Be a queen / Oprah Winfrey -- Mama's plan / Marion Bond West -- Tale of two cities / Best of bits a & pieces -- Where do the mermaids stand? / Robert Fulghum -- Pirate / Marjorie Walle -- So-what do you grow? / Philip Chard -- Grandma Ruby / Lynn Robertson -- Problem or solution? / Edgar Bledsoe -- Just the way you are / Jennifer Read Hawthorne -- True beauty / Charlotte Ward -- Angela's word / Barbara K Bassett -- Just say yes / Fran Capo -- Gift of gab / Lynn Rogers Petrak -- I was a sixth-grade scarecrow / Linda Jessup -- Overcoming Obstacles: -- If there's a will / Kathie Lee Gifford and Stacey Nasalroad -- We've come a long way / Pat Bonney Shepherd -- Justice has been served / Best of bits & pieces -- No hair day / Alison Lambert with Jennifer Rosenfeld -- Just like you / Carol Price -- Little red wagons / Patricia Lorenz -- My father's lessons / Cathy Downs -- Who to believe? / More sower's seeds -- Marks of life / Diana Golden -- Soaring free / Laurie Waldron -- Tears of joy / Joan Fountain with Carol Kline -- On Marriage: -- Home forever / Jean Bole -- Little holiday magic / K M Jenkins -- Paris in the springtime / Jennifer Read Hawthorne -- Marriage advice from 1886 / Jane Wells -- Handful of emeralds / Rebecca Christian -- What women don't understand about guys / Dave Barry -- Lost and found / Elinor Daily Hall -- Grandpa's valentine / Elaine Reese -- Soldier's last letter / Major Sullivan Ballou -- Love like that / Linda Ellerbee -- All the days of my life / Jeanne Marie Laskas -- On Motherhood: -- It will change your life / Dale Hanon Bourke -- As I watch you sleep / Diane Loomans -- To my grown-up son / Author unknown -- Running away / Lois Krueger -- Taking a break / Best of bits & pieces -- Help wanted-the ideal mother / Joan Beck -- Graduation day / Mary Ann Detzler -- Mother's letter to the world / Author unknown -- To give the fit of life / Patty Hansen -- Mother's day / Sharon Nicola Cramer -- Special Moments: -- In a hurry / Gina Barrett Schlesinger -- No small act of kindness / Donna Wick -- Last jar of jelly / Andy Skidmore -- Christmas story / Beverly M Bartlett -- Who won? / Dan Clark -- Bush sneakers / Christine Harris-Amos with Cliff Marsh -- Feather light / Melody Arnett -- 365 days / Rosemarie Giessinger -- Spots of a different color / Grazina Smith -- Live Your Dream: -- Wind beneath her wings / Carol Kline with Jean Harper -- What do you want to be? / Rev Teri Johnson -- Hello, Dolly! / Dolly Parton -- Finding my wings / Sue Augustine -- Grandma Moses and me / Liah Kraft-Kristaine -- We're all here to learn / Charles Slack -- Room of one's own / Liah Kraft-Kristaine -- Meeting Betty Furness / Barbara Haines Howett -- On Aging: -- Keeping up with Granny-and the "old guys" / Teresa Bloomingdale -- Dancin' Grannie / Beverly Gemingniani with Carol Kline -- Romance of the '90s for those in their 70s / Lillian Darr -- Bessie / Bessie Delaney -- Are we having fun yet? / Kim Miller -- Higher Wisdom: -- Asking for miracles / Maya Angelou -- Wise woman's stone / Best of bits & pieces -- Let it be / K Lynn Towse with Mary L Towse -- We are not alone / Mary L Miller -- Hijacking / K Bernard -- Miracle in Toronto / Sue West -- War story / Maureen Read -- Connection / Susan B Wilson -- Higher love / Suzanne Thomas Lawlor -- I wonder why things are the way they are / Christy Carter Koski -- Across The Generations: -- On giving birth / Kay Cordell Whitaker -- Doll for Great-Grandmother / Jacqueline Hickey -- Walking one another home / Rita Bresnahan -- Making of a woman / Doni Tamblyn -- Tribute to Dad / Debra Halperin Poneman -- Memories of a childhood past / Sasha Williams -- Threads that bind / Ann Seely -- Praise to the women on my journey / Rev Mellissa M Bowers -- More chicken soup? -- Supporting women of the world -- Who is Jack Canfield? -- Who is Mark Victor Hansen? -- Who is Jennifer Read Hawthorne? -- Who is Marci Shimoff? -- Contributors -- Permissions (continued).