All That Is Bitter & Sweet Quotes

“My vocation is to make my life an act of worship”
― Ashley Judd, All That Is Bitter & Sweet: A Memoir

“I recall looking out the window at Redbuds,Dogwoods, daffodils, irises and pom-pom bushes, knowing exactly what Heaven must look like: a spring day in Kentucky.”
― Ashley Judd, All That Is Bitter & Sweet: A Memoir

“Researchers like Vanessa believe that the key to [bonobos] pacifism and remarkable group tolerance and cooperation is a matriarchal society: Whenever a male starts to bully or attack a female, she cries out and other females band together and discipline the males, re-establishing calm and cooperation.”
― Ashley Judd, All That Is Bitter & Sweet: A Memoir

“A disturbing survey conducted by Interpol and the local Medical Health Association found that one out of three males admitted to raping at least once, and more than 40 percent admit to being physically violent with a intimate partner.”
― Ashley Judd, All That Is Bitter & Sweet: A Memoir

“That night, the skies opened up like spigots as we drove down dark, sloppy clay roads lined with tiny, ramshackle shacks until we arrived at our destination. As far as I could see, sidewalks were lined with pathetic tarps made from plastic rice sacks-they called them "rice tents"- where the poorest and most desperate women would lie down on the pavement with johns for as little as 15 cents a trick. That thing I was saying that I couldn't be shocked anymore? Ha! This scene was unimaginable. I saw a man holding an infant in the rain as he supervised his wife, a prostitute, with a client in a nearby rice tent.”
― Ashley Judd, All That Is Bitter & Sweet: A Memoir

“But President Kagame himself told me that when we have lived through their many genocides (1994 was actually but one in a long series), we will have the experience and the right to judge their genocide prevention policies.”
― Ashley Judd, All That Is Bitter And Sweet: A Memoir

“Today, I challenge myself, as Herbert Spencer would put it, to abandon “contempt prior to investigation.” I try to hang out longer in that troubling zone known as ambiguity, while still maintaining my principles. It is a tricky but worthwhile pursuit, one I place squarely in the realm of spiritual practice”
― Ashley Judd, All That Is Bitter And Sweet: A Memoir