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All That Is Bitter and Sweet_ A Memoir - Ashley Judd [216]

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Chapter 14

1 “Alcoholics are tortured by loneliness”: Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (n.p.: Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, 1981), Step Five, p. 57.

2 “Pitiful and incomprehensible demoralization”: Alcoholics Anonymous: Big Book, 4th ed. (n.p.: Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, 2001), p. 30.

3 Delusion is that this time: Language inspired by the Big Book of AA.

4 Sign the Christmas cards, whatever: Language inspired by Mellody, Facing Codependence.

5 Codependents have difficulty: Pia Mellody with Andrea Wells Miller and J. Keith Miller, Facing Codependence: What It Is, Where It Comes from, How It Sabotages Our Lives (New York: HarperOne, 2003), p. 4.


Chapter 15

1 Would be none too smart: Language inspired by the Big Book of AA.

2 The Karpman drama triangle: Please see Steve Karpman, with comments by Patty E. Fleener, MSW, “The Drama Triangle,” www.mental-health-today.com.

3 Losses of my childhood: Language inspired by the Welcome of Co-Dependents Anonymous, Big Book of Co-Dependents Anonymous (CoRe Publications, 2008).

4 Compliance, and dominance: Symptoms list is from the Big Book of Co-Dependents Anonymous, pp. 3–5.

5 Solutions that led to serenity: Language inspired by Al-Anon Family Groups Suggested Welcome.

6 28,000 children will starve: http://www.wfp.org/hunger/stats, and http://www.worldhunger.org/articles/Learn/world%20hunger%20facts%202002.htm.

7 Find contentment and even happiness: Language inspired by Al-Anon Family Groups Suggested Welcome.


Chapter 16

1 Hard line that Rome had adopted: Richard Owen, “Pope Says Condoms Are Not the Solution to AIDS—They Make It Worse,” The Times (of London), March 17, 2009, www.thetimes.co.uk.

2 Less than 8 percent: Blanca Samayoa et al., “Experience of a Pediatric HIV Clinic in Guatemala City,” Pan American Journal of Public Health 25, no. 1 (2009): 51.

3 A documentary: Ashley Judd and YouthAIDS: Confronting the Pandemic, premiered December 1, 2006, on the Learning Channel.

4 78 percent for nonparticipants: Pan American Social Marketing Organization, “An Effective Behavior Change Module for Mobile Populations in Central America,” paper presented at the International Conference on AIDS, Barcelona, Spain, July 7–12, 2002, abstract no. TuPeF5315.

5 Inaugurating a five-year strategic plan: From USAID Nicaragua HIV/AIDS Health Profile, www.usaid.gov.

6 Because of this cruel law: “Nicaragua: Blanket Ban on Abortion Harms Women,” Human Rights Watch, August 29, 2007, www.hrw.org.

7 Adult seroprevalence was a shocking 8.4 percent: Science 313 (July 28, 2006): 481.


Chapter 17

1 India is the mother ship: Statistics about poverty and AIDS in India derived from the United Nations Development Programme, www.undp.org.

2 Letting go of the outcomes: “You have the right to work, but never to the fruit of work. You should never engage in action for the sake of rewards, nor should you long for inaction.” The Bhagavad Gita, verse 47, translated by Eknath Easwaran, The End of Sorrow: Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living (Berkeley, CA: Blue Mountain Center of Meditation, 1975).

3 18 to 45 percent carry the virus: National AIDS Control Organization, India, “HIV Sentinel Surveillance and HIV Estimation in India 2007: A Technical Brief,” 2007, http://www.avert.org/india-hiv-aids-statistics.htm. For a fascinating technical article, please see “Repeated Surveys to Assess Changes in Behaviors and Prevalence of HIV/STIs in Populations at risk of HIV,” www.fhi.org, especially p. 100.

4 To break that cycle: For more information on the Self-Employed Workers Association, please see www.sewa.org. For more information on women’s credit and lending, please see Darryl Collins, et al., Portfolios of the Poor: How the World’s Poor Live on $2 a Day (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009), and the website Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing, www.wiego.org.

5 Account holders in Kamathipura: For more information, please see http://infochangeindia.org/Agenda/Against-exclusion/Sex-workers-as-economic-agents.html.

6 Seane has a remarkable history:

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