Jane Fonda Quotes

#1. I was shocked into the realization that I myself had played an unwitting role as a movie star and sex symbol in perpetrating the stereotypes that affected women all over the world.

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#2. Seek women mentors. If you're a businesswoman, look at the TEDx conferences. There's a lot of businesswomen that speak on there. I find them extremely inspiring.

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#3. Real love and intimacy can be much more possible when you're older.

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#4. You don't need to," he replied. "You're already saved." And he went on to tell me that the original Greek meaning of the word saved meant that a person was whole.

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#5. Mostly actors are progressive because we are accustomed to all the nuances of human life, whereas dictators just try to flatten it all out. So we usually try to stand up to dictators like, well, we won't mention names.

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#6. It's never too late - never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.

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#7. I'm a very brave person. I can go to North Vietnam, I can challenge my government, but I can't challenge the man I'm with if means I'm going to end up alone.

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#8. Address things now that could otherwise turn into regrets.

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#9. Shortly after I turned 50, both Ted Turner and the AARP came into my life. The only difference? With AARP, there were benefits.

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#10. Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles.

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#11. I grew up with a deep belief that wherever our troops fought, they were on the side of the angels.

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#12. My position on the POW issue has been widely misquoted and taken out of context. What I originally said and have continued to say is that the POW's are lying if they assert it was North Vietnamese policy to torture American Prisoners.

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#13. The sex is better and I understand life better. I don't want to be young again.

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#14. I've worked really, really hard on myself to not be judgmental.

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#15. Drink water between meals instead of with them so that the digestive juices will not be diluted.

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#16. You cannot expect your children to be happy eating esoteric beige-colored foods when their friends get soda pop, Snickers, and Twinkies.

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#17. I was so devastated by my second divorce that I had a nervous breakdown.

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#18. My mother killed herself when I was 12. I won't complete that relationship. But I can try to understand her.

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#19. I think the entire world is going to be united against us.

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#20. I would think that if you understood what sex education is, you would get down on your knees and worship a condom.

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#21. To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.

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#22. In my marriages, I'd lost parts of who I was because I was trying to mold myself into what I thought a man wanted me to be.

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#23. The skin is our body's envelope, the wrapping that delivers us to the world. If we understand how the skin functions in mid-life and adjust goals and life-styles appropriately, we'll be surprised how much better we can look.

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#24. If our work is stimulating and rewarding, if it pushes us to grow ... we become more valuable human beings.

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#25. Children born to teens have less supportive and stimulating environments, poorer health, lower cognitive development, and worse educational outcomes. Children of teen mothers are at increased risk of being in foster care and becoming teen parents themselves, thereby repeating the cycle.

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#26. You must decrease the amount of food you eat and increase the amount of exercise you get. That is all there is to it.

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#27. One part of wisdom is knowing what you don't need anymore and letting it go.

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#28. I always had a penchant for falling in love. Every time I found myself without a mate, I fell into a state of low-sizzling panic.

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#29. I am able to talk about my life in a way that helps other women - and men, but mostly women - understand their own life. I feel real proud of that. And then the fact that my children are okay. You know, you're only as happy as your least happy child. So if your kids aren't okay, you're not good.

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#30. During my first few weeks in Hollywood, I was told that Jack Warner, the head of the studio, did not believe that a small-breasted woman could become a star.

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#31. Pay more attention to losing inches than losing pounds.

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#32. The only thing I have never known is true intimacy with a man. I absolutely wanted to discover that before dying.

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#33. Studios weren't banging on my door to offer me parts ... And I thought, well how am I ever going to make movies that speak to my heart and to my values?

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#34. I left acting for 15 years, and I think it's really nice to have another life. I took too much for granted when I was younger. I didn't really want to be an actor. I didn't really love it. And so I made a lot of mistakes. Oddly, I care much more about it now. I feel like a complete novice.

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#35. The capacity of young people to persevere, even under the most adverse conditions, never ceases to amaze me.

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#36. You are being used as cannon fodder for U.S. imperialism.

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#37. I wasn't a hippie and I wasn't even a bohemian. I was extremely earnest and serious.

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#38. If you're ever in a situation where you're not getting served or you can't get what you need, just cry.

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#39. Well, what is a relationship? It's about two people having tremendous weaknesses and vulnerabilities, like we all do, and one person being able to strengthen the other in their areas of vulnerability, and vice versa. You need each other. You complete each other, passion and romance aside.

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#40. We are living on average today 34 years longer than our great-grandparents did.

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#41. Revolution is an act of love; we are the children of revolution, born to be rebels. It runs in our blood.

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#42. Being Henry Fonda's daughter got me started. But it didn't keep me working.

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#43. The vulnerability of opening your heart fully and deeply to another is terrifying, but at a point in my 50s, I realized that I had to step up to the plate.

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#44. The glow and energy of the healthy woman is the ultimate beauty, the only beauty that will last.

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#45. I think the Internet and technology in general has changed everything. We can see it overseas even more with the Arab Spring and so forth.

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#46. I have people in my life who will say, 'Honey, you're trying too hard.' I like being saucy, but I'm 73 and a half. I'm still trying to find my way between matronly and coltishness.

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#47. Winning means some kind of approval of the Establishment which means people will more readily accept me, may be less frightened of me and other people who speak out

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#48. That's what we're all doing: paving the way, finding the roles that have the complication instead of the one that's always got it together or the dedicated housewife or the wild one who smokes cigarettes and sleeps with anybody.

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#49. Consistency can be a trap, especially if it leads to being consistently wrong rather than to stopping, admitting your mistake, and changing course.

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#50. I finally got it: empower girls and everything changes.

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#51. The people who did you wrong or who didn't quite know how to show up, you forgive them. And forgiving them allows you to forgive yourself too.

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#52. Stay curious, keep learning and keep growing. And always strive to be more interested than interesting.

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#53. You think you're being broken but you're really being broken open ... and that's where the healing happens, in those broken places ... if you'll allow it.

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#54. you can be different if u be u

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#55. The bravest soldiers aren't unafraid, but they're the ones who are able to harness their fear on behalf of courage.

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#56. The woman who respects the needs of her body will junk the junk food.

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#57. While not impossible, it is especially challenging for teenage parents to develop bonds with their children. A high percent of them were themselves children of teenage parents and have never experienced appropriate parenting.

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#58. You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.

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#59. We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

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#60. I've been accused of being too flexible, too willing to mold myself to men, and that's something I'm constantly working on.

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#61. I don't think there's anything more important than making peace before it's too late. And it almost always falls to the child to try to move toward the parent.

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#62. Movies are collective, cooperative endeavours, which I like a lot. But writing is all up to you, it's what's so scary; it's just you and that page. But I really like it a lot.

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#63. Reproductive freedom is a real danger for the patriarchy, because it means that women are empowered.

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#64. The challenge is not to be perfect ... it's to be whole

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#65. No distractions. Center yourself. This is your time.

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#66. I'm an assistant storyteller. It's like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I'm waiting on six million people a week, if I'm lucky.

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#67. Find the balance between the calories you take in and the ones you burn up.

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#68. Namby-pamby little routines that don't speed up your heartbeat and make you sweat aren't worth your while.

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#69. A mother who is obsessing about being thin and dieting and exercising is not going to be a very good mother.

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#70. It's never to late- never to late to change your life,never to late to be happy

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#71. We can no longer waste time and money. Every day, more than 2,000 girls in America, age 15-19, give birth - in the wealthiest, most educated nation in the world! Neither you nor I should accept this statistic.

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#72. When you're told to be good, you have to get rid of whatever is bad. I sure identify with that.

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#73. Adult women, all of us, have to come to grips with how we have been affected by gender norms, and how we have been silenced. We have to help our daughters. Understanding it within ourselves and helping our young girls stand up for themselves is one way.

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#74. The more you treat yourself positively, the less you'll want or need to be negative.

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#75. When food becomes the enemy, every time we lose the fight we not only gain weight, but lose our self-esteem as well.

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#76. When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed.

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#77. "Strong" to people means "real." It means you believe that's a person who exists, as opposed to some two-dimensional depiction of women.

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#78. Declare a truce and accept food as a life-giving friend.

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#79. Pragmatist that I am, I always meet necessity with enthusiasm.

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#80. So much conspires to silence us - because our truths are inherently subversive.

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#81. Telling lies and showing off to get attention are mistakes I made that I don't want my kids to make.

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#82. An exercise outfit helps because it sets this time apart from the rest of your day and makes it matter more.

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#83. Christ was the first feminist and because of that I've learned from his teaching to call myself a Christian feminist, adding that her faith is not a matter of traditions and dogmas but, rather, a spiritual experience.

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#84. We are not meant to be perfect; we are meant to be whole

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#85. I spent a good deal of time going back over my childhood, my midlife, to try to understand who I was. We're supposed to be complete and whole, and you can't be whole if you're trying to be perfect. Doing a life review helped me get over the disease to please.

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#86. I confess. If the law had been appiled to me properly for what I did in Vietnam, I'd have been convicted for high treason.

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#87. I love mistakes because it's the only way you learn.

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#88. Getting fit is a political act - you are taking charge of your life.

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#89. You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don't find easy, or learn an awful lot very fast, which is what I tried to do.

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#90. I am not a do-gooder. I am a revolutionary. A revolutionary woman.

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#91. Whatever kind of workout you settle on, it should include the Big Three of exercise for health and fitness-aerobics, resistance exercises, and stretching.

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#92. It's much more important to be interested than to be interesting.

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#93. When you know in your heart why you did something, and you feel and you know that in spite of all the controversy that it was right, doesn't matter.

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#94. When a child enters the world through you, it alters everything on a psychic, psychological and purely practical level.

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#95. I like playing that character who brings love to people, who puts people in a place where they're apt to encounter love.

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#96. People think actresses find public speaking easy, and it's not easy at all; we're used to hiding behind masks.

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#97. When I was at the age when you were supposed to be glamorous if you were a movie star, I wasn't.

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#98. My life is a stairway to heaven, not a 'decline into decrepitude.

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#99. Feminism is not just about women; it's about letting all people lead fuller lives.

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#100. We all, in fact, carry so many people inside us; the only difference is that actors get paid for it, and we sort of spruce it up a bit.

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