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.
JANE FONDAThe 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.
More Jane Fonda Quotes
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One part of wisdom is knowing what you don’t need anymore and letting it go.
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No distractions. Center yourself. This is your time.
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Physical fitness is a three-legged stool: strength, aerobic capacity, and flexibility.
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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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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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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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In this country, the only way a minority can get anything done is to make a little noise.
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My life is a stairway to heaven, not a ‘decline into decrepitude.
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All my life I had believed that unless I was perfect I would not be loved.
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I never was a hippie! I went to India because so many friends like Mia Farrow and The Beatles were going there to discover truth. And so I went and trekked through India by myself, but instead of discovering truth, I wanted to join the Peace Corps.
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I don’t know if a country (America) where the people are so ignorant of reality and of history, if you can call that a free world.
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When you can’t remember why you’re hurt, that’s when you’re healed. When you have to work real hard to re-create the pain, and you can’t quite get there, that’s when you’re better.
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It’s never too late – never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.
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It’s better to be interested than interesting.
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Don’t give up. There are lessons to be learned even in the most horrendous pain. And you don’t know that when you’re young.
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Look what scares you in the face and try to understand it. Empathy is revolutionary.
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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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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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I’ll smoke pot every now and then. I cannot see a movie on pot. The number of movies I’ve seen thinking, This is probably the best I have ever seen, and then I’ll see it again sober and think, What was I thinking?
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I thought I had learned how to have an intimate relationship. And I thought I’d learned how to be happy. Everybody has issues. For me, the challenge is intimacy, but I really didn’t start to get that until I turned 60.
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Sex and intimacy are not the same: You can have sex all your life and never be intimate with a person. There has to be empathy in the relationship. You have to enjoy seeing through their eyes. When you’re with them, you’re there and not thinking about what you’re gonna do tomorrow.
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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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You can run the office without a boss, but you can’t run an office without secretaries.
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If you allow yourself, you can become stronger in the very places that you’ve been broken.
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Refuse to be afraid that we will no longer be considered attractive and acceptable when we are strong.
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The secret of losing weight is patience.
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