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.
JANE FONDAIn this country, the only way a minority can get anything done is to make a little noise.
More Jane Fonda Quotes
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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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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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My greatest asset is that I am constantly changing.
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Relationships are the oxygen of the psyche.
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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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My life is a stairway to heaven, not a ‘decline into decrepitude.
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You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.
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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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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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The glow and energy of the healthy woman is the ultimate beauty, the only beauty that will last.
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The most incredible beauty and the most satisfying way of life come from affirming your own uniqueness.
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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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All my life I had believed that unless I was perfect I would not be loved.
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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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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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It is never too late to master your weaknesses.
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I confess. If the law had been appiled to me properly for what I did in Vietnam, I’d have been convicted for high treason.
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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 like to think both – it’s not either/or. It’s and.
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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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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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Go for the burn! Sweat!
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The secret of losing weight is patience.
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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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Look what scares you in the face and try to understand it. Empathy is revolutionary.
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The bravest soldiers aren’t unafraid, but they’re the ones who are able to harness their fear on behalf of courage.
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