We’re still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That’s the old metaphor: You’re born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude.
JANE FONDAIt’s never too late – never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.
More Jane Fonda Quotes
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You don’t learn from successes; you don’t learn from awards; you don’t learn from celebrity; you only learn from wounds and scars and mistakes and failures. And that’s the truth.
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No distractions. Center yourself. This is your time.
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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 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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It’s better to be interested than interesting.
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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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If our work is stimulating and rewarding, if it pushes us to grow…we become more valuable human beings.
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Good physical condition is protection. Our strength comes from our body.
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You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.
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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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The secret of losing weight is patience.
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You shouldn’t give up. For a while, you have to stay close to the wall and be careful who you spend time with and take care of yourself.
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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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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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Someone once said that under the bell jar of compliance, the only thing that blooms is rage.
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