Quotes About Jane Fonda

#1. Prostitutes are the inevitable product of a society that places ultimate importance on money, possessions, and competition.

Jane Fonda

#2. I'm vain. My arms are thin, but I'm vain about loose flesh. And so I'm careful that what I wear will show off my best parts, which are my waist and my butt.

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#3. 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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#4. Our young people are assets to be cultivated and nurtured; let's begin treating them that way.

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#5. When I was in my 40s was I simply produced my own movies because no one offered me anything. But certainly after 50 it's hard for a woman, which is why television is such a welcoming thing.

Jane Fonda

#6. Beware of men who use words that relate pejoratively to females when describing the 'other side.

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#7. A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.

Jane Fonda

#8. Ultimately we must concern ourselves with pulling out by its roots the decadence that controls our culture, the profit motive that controls our culture.

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#9. 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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#10. I found that you're more powerful when talking from your soul.

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

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#12. Men fear that becoming 'we' will erase his 'I.' For women, our 'we' is our saving grace Women's relationships are like a renewable source of power.

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#13. I love films that make you feel good when you come out and, in my opinion, there's not enough of them these days.

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#14. I am convinced that we become what we do.

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#15. 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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#16. Just saw American Sniper. Powerful. Another view of Coming Home. Bradley Cooper sensational. Bravo Clint Eastwood.

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#17. 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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#18. My identity depended on men for so long. You can be successful and still have the feeling that if you're not with a man you don't exist.

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#19. Your goal should be to take your body and make it as healthy, strong, flexible and well-proportioned as you can.

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#20. In this age of remote-controlled pushbutton war, we must all try very, very hard to remain human beings.

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#21. If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

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#22. I don't want to die without knowing who I am.

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#23. I knew that I had to write my memoirs.

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#24. Everyone should know that feeling of overcoming fear and mastering something. People who aren't taught that become soggy.

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

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#26. 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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#27. Address things now that could otherwise turn into regrets.

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#28. I'm now the elder in the position of doling out wisdom and trying to mend fences.

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#29. 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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#30. We were marching since we were babies and all we did was make Jane Fonda famous.

Robert Patrick

#31. When you're an older woman [in a movie], you are the brunt of the joke.

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

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

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

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#36. A big mirror to exercise in front of is essential.

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#37. The reality is sobering: in the United States one in three girls will become pregnant before age 20, totaling more than 750,000 girls per year.

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#38. As is my way, when I start something that I've put off doing, I always start with the hardest form. So I started with Ashtanga.

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#39. The secret of losing weight is patience.

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

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

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#42. 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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#43. I was a chameleon, the woman men wanted me to be.

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#44. Feminism is about ultimate, limitless reality ...

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#45. When I'm in Canada, I feel this is what the world should be like.

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#46. If adolescent pregnancy prevention is to become a priority, then our strategy, as advocates, must contain two key elements: civic engagement and education.

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

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#48. 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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#49. Good enough is good enough. We're not supposed to be perfect. We're supposed to be complete.

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#50. When you think you can't do any more repetitions, do two more.

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#51. A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring.

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#52. Any time you are put in the same category as Jane Fonda, a real legend, it feels surreal, perhaps even undeserved.

Megan Ellison

#53. Food is more than a matter of taste-it is the fuel for our bodies.

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

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#55. 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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#56. 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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#57. I like to think both - it's not either/or. It's and.

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#58. I think feminism is about the spirit.

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#59. Physical fitness is a three-legged stool: strength, aerobic capacity, and flexibility.

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#60. It was a good experience working with Roger Vadim and Jane Fonda.

Terry Southern

#61. 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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#62. Ask questions. Stay curious. It's much more important to stay interested than to be interesting.

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#63. Emotionality is really easy for me. My father always said that Fondas can cry at a good steak.

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#64. You look at that Democratic debate, I had to laugh at what I saw Barack Obama do. I mean in one week he went from saying he's going to sit down, you know, for tea, with our enemies, but then he's going to bomb our allies. I mean he's gone from Jane Fonda to Dr. Strangelove in one week.

Mitt Romney

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

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#67. 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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#68. 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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#69. My childhood was influenced by the roles my father played in his movies. Whether Abraham Lincoln or Tom Joad in the 'Grapes of Wrath,' his characters communicated certain values which I try to carry with me to this day.

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#70. In this country, the only way a minority can get anything done is to make a little noise.

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#71. I bought all those [fitness] videos
Richard Simmons, Jane Fonda. I love to sit and eat cookies and watch 'em.

Dolly Parton

#72. I was struck with a bolt of distilled horror like I have never known before. Far worse than suddenly finding yourself walking through a prison cafeteria wearing Daisy Duke shorts and a Jane Fonda headband.

Augusten Burroughs

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

Jane Fonda

#74. I think what's happening in the world - there's nothing more dangerous than a wounded beast, and the patriarchy is wounded.

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#75. 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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#76. If you understood what communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees that we would some day become communist ... I, a socialist, think that we should strive toward a socialist society, all the way to communism.

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#77. 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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#78. The most incredible beauty and the most satisfying way of life come from affirming your own uniqueness.

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#79. It's better to be interested than interesting.

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#80. Women are rising. And I think that's all the violence and war - it could be the last gasp of the patriarchy, actually.

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#81. How would you like to have a father who keeps getting younger looking every year? Do you realize what that can do to a woman?

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#82. If I can change, anybody can change.

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#83. Female listeners are leaving traditional talk radio because of the rough-edged, shouting nature of it. Women want more light and less heat.

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#84. Good physical condition is protection. Our strength comes from our body.

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#85. The '60s may be idealized in the movie from a cultural point of view, but the decade was all about discord and a big generational split that was very painful.

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#86. Think about it: Reducing crime and poverty and ensuring that we have an educated, stable work force has a direct effect on you and me and the future of our country.

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#87. I like all the old-fashioned icons. My friends are artists, so they make me up to look like certain people. I am more inspired by people like Jane Fonda or Brigitte Bardot - people who did something as activists.

Pamela Anderson

#88. I'm not sure that I would have become a Christian if I had continued to live in Hollywood because the notion wouldn't have occurred to me.

Jane Fonda

#89. 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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#90. Some people are surprised that the Republicans are waging a war on women, or that they voted against equal pay for women. I'm not surprised at all. In some ways, it may be a good thing. They're defending the patriarchy, which is a wounded beast! And wounded beasts are always dangerous.

Jane Fonda

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

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#92. Through therapy and a lot of thinking and writing my memoirs, I've been able to use my life as a lesson.

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#93. We cannot elect men to office who are afraid of premature evacuation.

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#94. There are no shortcuts and no sweatless quickies.

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#95. Most of us want to be strong, but we are not.

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#96. 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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#97. I know how gratifying it is not only to work in film but to be acknowledged by peers; producing '9 to 5' was an opportunity that I valued precisely because it's so rarely in the hands of women.

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#98. The harder you work out, the more you should stretch.

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#99. Look what scares you in the face and try to understand it. Empathy is revolutionary.

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#100. 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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