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 FONDAIt’s better to be interested than interesting.
More Jane Fonda Quotes
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The more you treat yourself positively, the less you’ll want or need to be negative.
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I was in my mid-40s. I was a bulimic, and I realized if I continue with this addiction of mine, I will not be able to continue doing my life. The older you get the more damage it does; it takes longer to recover from a binge. And it was very hard.
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We’ve got to establish a socialistic economic structure that will limit private, profit-oriented businesses.
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I feel like when I was an adolescent, and felt so unworthy of love and so empty, I moved outside of myself.
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Eat only when you are hungry-not because it is one o’clock or seven o’clock or whatever.
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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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Relationships are the oxygen of the psyche.
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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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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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One part of wisdom is knowing what you don’t need anymore and letting it go.
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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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All my life I had believed that unless I was perfect I would not be loved.
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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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Perfection is a toxic desire. We are not supposed to be perfect. The challenge is not to be perfect, it’s to be whole.
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Getting fit is a political act – you are taking charge of your life.
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