I'd Just As Soon Freeze To Death.

Campaigning Actress Ashley Judd Refuses To 'breed' With Her Racing Star Husband Dario Franchitti While There Are Starving Children In The World. . . . She Says, 'it's Unconscionable To Breed With The Number Of Children Who Are Starving To Death In Impoverished Countries.'

God Doesn't Make Mistakes And Timing Unfolds As It Should.

The Conversation About Women’s Bodies Exists Largely Outside Of Us, While It Is Also Directed At And Marketed To Us, And Used To Define And Control Us. The Conversation About Women Happens Everywhere, Publicly And Privately. We Are Described And Detailed, Our Faces And Bodies Analyzed And Picked Apart, Our Worth Ascertained And Ascribed Based On The Reduction Of Personhood To Simple Physical Objectification. Our Voices, Our Personhood, Our Potential, And Our Accomplishments Are Regularly Minimized And Muted.

She Wasn't That Tough On Me, But I Think She Was Often A Little Frightened - Being A Single Parent. So It Begets This Quality Of Desired Absoluteness That Doesn't Really Exist. My Sister Could Crack Her Up. She'd Be Getting Into Trouble And Put The Steve Martin Arrow Through Her Head And Mom Would Start To Laugh. I Didn't Have The Same Sort Of Wiliness.

When We Were Growing Up, We Were So Poor That Our Heritage Was The Only Thing We Had. Mama Would Say, 'kids, Pour More Water In The Soup. Better Days Are Coming.'