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.
JANE FONDAUltimately we must concern ourselves with pulling out by its roots the decadence that controls our culture, the profit motive that controls our culture.
More Jane Fonda Quotes
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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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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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Go for the burn! Sweat!
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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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We’re not meant to be perfect. It took me a long time to learn that.
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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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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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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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The challenge is not to be perfect. It’s to be whole.
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But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.
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We don’t need to be perfect. We’re not supposed to be perfect; we’re supposed to be complete. And you can’t be complete if you’re trying to be perfect.
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The institution of marriage is obsolete.
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Physical fitness is a three-legged stool: strength, aerobic capacity, and flexibility.
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Stay curious, keep learning and keep growing. And always strive to be more interested than interesting.
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My greatest asset is that I am constantly changing.
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