A Lotus Grows in the Mud

by Hawn, Goldie

• ISBN13: 9780425207888
• ISBN10: 0425207889
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-02-28
• Publisher: Berkley Trade

Summary

The New York Timesbestselling memoir from one of the world's best-loved actresses In this candid, insightful, and\ unconventional memoir, Goldie Hawn invites us to join her in an inspirational look back at the people, places, and events that have touched her. It is the spiritual journey of a heart in search of enlightenment. With her trademark effervescence, Goldie delivers a personal look at private and powerful events that carried her through life: her father's spontaneity; her mother's courage; and the joy of being a daughter, a sister, a parent, and a lover. She writes about her childhood dreams of becoming a ballerina. She takes us on a tour of her go-go years in 1960s New York City, the phenomenon of TV's Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, her Oscar-winning debut in Cactus Flowerand Hollywood stardom. She writes intimately about the challenges of love, anger and fear, and the importance of compassion and integrity. She speaks openly about her family, her partner Kurt Russell, her children, her faith, her curiosity for that which she doesn't yet know, and her thirst for knowledge. Most of all, it is a trip back through a life well lived by a woman well loved.

Author Biography

Goldie Hawn is one of Hollywood's most beloved actresses. Her credits include TV's Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, and the films Cactus Flower (her Oscar-winning debut), Shampoo, The Sugarland Express, Private Benjamin, The First Wive's Club, and many more. She has produced and developed more than a dozen projects for film and television. She is the partner of Kurt Russell and the mother of actress Kate Hudson and actor Oliver Hudson.

Table of Contents

preface	ix
be careful what you wish for	3	(6)
joy	9	(4)
growing pains	13	(14)
first steps	27	(12)
compassion	39	(16)
fear	55	(16)
first love	71	(16)
integrity	87	(16)
life's purpose	103	(10)
trusting men	113	(16)
courage	129	(12)
choices	141	(12)
success	153	(12)
altered states	165	(10)
laughter	175	(12)
life's rewards	187	(14)
sisters	201	(12)
wonder	213	(22)
fathers and daughters	235	(12)
prayer	247	(14)
embracing strangers	261	(12)
grief	273	(8)
fate	281	(8)
left-hand turns	289	(14)
power	303	(16)
keeping the flame	319	(8)
faith	327	(16)
removing obstacles	343	(28)
going back	371	(16)
death	387	(14)
oxygen	401	(6)
empty nest	407	(10)
smile	417	(18)
lotus	435	(6)
mothers and daughters	441