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 understood what communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees that we would some day become communist. I, a socialist, think that we should strive toward a socialist society, all the way to communism.
More Jane Fonda Quotes
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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 most incredible beauty and the most satisfying way of life come from affirming your own uniqueness.
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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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The more you treat yourself positively, the less you’ll want or need to be negative.
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It is never too late to master your weaknesses.
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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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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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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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Working in Hollywood does give one a certain expertise in the field of prostitution.
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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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Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to people and what kind of an impact you have on the people around you and the community around you and the world, so that when you go out, you can feel you have made a positive difference.
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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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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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I 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.
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I am not a do-gooder. I am a revolutionary. A revolutionary woman.
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