Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction 1
5. Growing Up Female
6. That Summer Holiday 30
7. The Parting Gift 32
8. Let’s Play Doctor 38
9. In the Moonlight 41
10. At the Beach 44
11. A Helping Hand 48
12. In the Recesses of Memory 49
13. Fragments from a Life 52
14. The Slave 55
15. Love and Sexuality
16. The Picture 60
17. The Picture 65
18. The Picture 73
19. The Smile 79
20. My Mother’s Friend 81
21. A Worthless Woman 83
22. Male-Female Relations
23. Where To? 88
24. The Cat 92
25. The Woman of My Dreams 97
26. Mozart’s Fez 100
27. A Virgin Continent 101
28. An Old Couple 106
29. Marriage
30. A Mistake in the Knitting 112
31. My Wedding Night 120
32. The Dummy 127
33. The Cat, the Maid, and the Wife 129
34. Sun, I Am the Moon 133
35. The Dreadful Sea 141
36. Woman with a Story 147
37. The Persian Rug 154
38. The Dream 159
39. Pharaoh Is Drowning Again 163
40. Childbearing
41. The Spider’s Web 172
42. Man and Woman 178
43. Half a Woman 181
44. Heir Apparent 186
45. The Newcomer 189
46. Self-Fulfillment
47. International Women’s Day 194
48. The Filly Became a Mouse 199
49. Restoration 205
50. Waiting for Hayla 206
51. The Closely Guarded Secret 209
52. I Will Never Forfeit My Right 210
53. Homecoming 214
54. Bittersweet Memories 217
55. Customs and Values
56. Tears for Sale 222
57. Misfortune in the Alley 227
58. Questioning 232
59. The Dinosaur 235
60. Moonstruck 241
61. A Moment of Truth 245
62. The Future 248
63. The Gallows 254
64. The Winds of Change
65. The Breeze of Youth 258
66. A Successful Woman 265
67. In Need of Reassurance 270
68. Short and Sassy 275
69. The Collapse of Barriers 277
70. The Beginning 280
71. A Moment of Contemplation 285
72. I Will Try Tomorrow 288
73. Notes 291
74. About the Authors 297