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 FONDAIf you allow yourself, you can become stronger in the very places that you’ve been broken.
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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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My greatest asset is that I am constantly changing.
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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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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 like to think both – it’s not either/or. It’s and.
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Think about it: Reducing crime and poverty and ensuring that we have an educated, stable work force has a direct effect on you and me and the future of our country.
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You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.
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If you can intervene early in the lives of girls here and in other parts of the world, you can begin to change the prospects for the future.
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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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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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Relationships are the oxygen of the psyche.
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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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We’re not meant to be perfect. It took me a long time to learn that.
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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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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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