I’m an assistant storyteller. It’s like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I’m waiting on six million people a week, if I’m lucky.
JANE FONDAI was shocked into the realization that I myself had played an unwitting role as a movie star and sex symbol in perpetrating the stereotypes that affected women all over the world.
More Jane Fonda Quotes
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When you can’t remember why you’re hurt, that’s when you’re healed. When you have to work real hard to re-create the pain, and you can’t quite get there, that’s when you’re better.
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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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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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I don’t know if a country (America) where the people are so ignorant of reality and of history, if you can call that a free world.
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I think what’s happening in the world – there’s nothing more dangerous than a wounded beast, and the patriarchy is wounded.
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We’ve got to establish a socialistic economic structure that will limit private, profit-oriented businesses.
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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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Getting fit is a political act – you are taking charge of your life.
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We all, in fact, carry so many people inside us; the only difference is that actors get paid for it, and we sort of spruce it up a bit.
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One part of wisdom is knowing what you don’t need anymore and letting it go.
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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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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 more you treat yourself positively, the less you’ll want or need to be negative.
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The institution of marriage is obsolete.
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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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