x dismiss this message
Did you know you can edit this page?
-
Sign Into Shelfari
-
Choose something to edit
-
Save your contributions
see page history
Description edit
Ashley Judd is best known as the acclaimed actress in films such as De Lovely and Double Jeopardy , but these days she is more likely to be found wading through an African refugee camp or Asian brothel than on a film set. For most of the past decade Judd has been visiting human rights... read more
Ridiculously Simplified Synopsis edit
Summary edit
If you want to read all about her humanitarian work in Africa, India and other Countries (and it is very graphic and depressing and will drag you down) this book is for you. If you were more interested in her family history, her recovery or her marriage to a famous race car driver, skip it.... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)
People edit
- Ashley Judd: Author, daughter of Naomi and sister of Wynonna
- Dario: Supportive husband
- Kate Roberts: Add a description of this character.
- Papa Jack
- Salma
- Mamaw
- Bono
- Nana
- Tennie
- Marshall
- Dr. Rene
- Papaw Judd
- Natasha
- Brian
- Percy
- Moyra
- Neelam
- Kim
- Naina
- Kornai
- Bobby
- Nini
- Hope
- Mary
- Therese
- Del Rio Pike
- Sahouly
- Kagame
- Mark
- Gandhi
- Desmond Tutu
- Margaret
- Mu Sochua
- Seane
- Diana
- Pauline
- Ted
- Dee
- Father Michael
- Ruchira Gupta
- Cynthia
- Nasreen
- Brenda
Quotes edit
-
“A lot of people weren't there for me while I was growing up, but by God, I am here for myself now.”
-
““When I change myself I help change the whole world.””
Ashley Judd
- Popular Highlights from Kindle Customers
-
“You can carry the message. But you are not the message. God’s love is the message. Quit taking on people’s stuff. Pray for the spiritual wisdom to have discernment between empathy and enmeshment. There is a God, and it’s not you.”
Highlighted by 118 Kindle customers -
I often discuss with friends from similar backgrounds what happens inside of us when our experiences growing up are minimized and denied by adults, both then and now. In response to the minimizing, we imbue our painful memories with even greater intensity, with anger that becomes rage, shame that becomes humiliation, and loneliness that becomes a hole in the soul. In short, the memories became indictments, of self and of others.
Highlighted by 65 Kindle customers -
Christ has no body now on earth but yours, No hands, no feet but yours, Yours are the eyes through which is to look out Christ’s compassion to the world Yours are the feet with which he is To go about doing good; Yours are the hands with which he is to bless us now. —SAINT TERESA OF AVILA
Highlighted by 59 Kindle customers -
The Lamb of God is the One who takes on our suffering, having chosen to die that we might live. Cast all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.
Highlighted by 54 Kindle customers -
Thank God my faith teaches me that listening is the beginning of empathy and, when followed by action, is a powerful prayer.
Highlighted by 52 Kindle customers -
Shades of Hope teaches it is abusive to point out a problem without highlighting a solution.
Highlighted by 48 Kindle customers -
When one is out of touch with oneself, one cannot touch others. —ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH
Highlighted by 44 Kindle customers -
Accepting something doesn’t mean I have to like it. It simply allows me to accept reality as it actually is this minute, and then move into the solution, rather than obsessing on the problem. Today, I believe we all need solutions, so I choose the process, again and again, of surrendering, accepting, suiting up, and showing up … and letting go of the outcome.
Highlighted by 43 Kindle customers -
The concept underlying the umbrella of addictions is that at the core of every addict of any type is loneliness. As Bill Wilson, cofounder of AA, wrote, “Alcoholics are tortured by loneliness.” The all-addiction model shows we can use anything, and I do mean anything—alcohol, drugs (street or prescription), shopping, sex, relationships, work, debting, spending, nicotine, and so on—outside of ourselves to try to soothe our core pain and loneliness, fill the hole in the soul, to try to change the way we feel.
Highlighted by 25 Kindle customers -
Depression can be good for me that way: It helps cut the bull and strips me down to the essence of what matters and what is worth living for—although I sometimes lack the flexibility of choosing the right time and place to share such things. I looked this stranger in the eye and said, “My vocation is to make my life an act of worship.”
Highlighted by 15 Kindle customers
Setting & Locations edit
- India
- South Africa
- Cambodia
- Rwanda
- Thailand
- Kentucky
- Central America
- Tennessee
- Lexington
- Congo
- Mumbai
- Hollywood
- Guatemala City
- California
- Kenya
- Ashland
- Soweto
- Bangkok
- Sanghamitra
- Florida
- New York City
- Madagascar
- Southeast Asia
- Scotland
- Pattaya
- Kinshasa
- Nairobi
- Los Angeles
- Nashville
- Berea
- Phnom Penh
- Nicaragua
- San Francisco
- Kamathipura
- Goma
- Chicago
- Kigali
- Mann County
- Harvard
- Camp Wig
- Sub-saharan Africa
- Washington
First Sentence edit
My favorite author, Edith Wharton, wrote in her autobiograhy, "My last page is always latent in my first, but the intervening windings of the way become clear only as I write."
Authors & Contributors edit
- Ashley Judd (Author)
Other Contributors:
- Nicholas D. Kristof (Foreword)
- Maryanne Vollers (Contributor)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Country: USA
Publication Date: April 5, 2011
ISBN: 978-0345523617
Page Count: 432
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Country: USA
Publication Date: April 5, 2011
ISBN: 978-0345523617
Page Count: 432
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: PN2287.J83 A3 2011
- Dewey: 791.4302
Popular Tags
We’re hiding the glossary entries, themes, errata, series & lists, awards, movie connections, books that influenced this book, books influenced by this book, books that cite this book and books cited by this book sections. If you would like to add content to them, you must first make them visible.
