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.
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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It’s better to be interested than interesting.
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I always had a penchant for falling in love. Every time I found myself without a mate, I fell into a state of low-sizzling panic.
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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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Refuse to be afraid that we will no longer be considered attractive and acceptable when we are strong.
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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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Someone once said that under the bell jar of compliance, the only thing that blooms is rage.
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I finally got it: empower girls and everything changes.
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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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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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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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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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Getting fit is a political act – you are taking charge of your life.
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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 am not a do-gooder. I am a revolutionary. A revolutionary woman.
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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’re more powerful when talking from your soul.
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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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The most incredible beauty and the most satisfying way of life come from affirming your own uniqueness.
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Revolution is an act of love; we are the children of revolution, born to be rebels. It runs in our blood.
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When I’m in Canada, I feel this is what the world should be like.
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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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Working in Hollywood does give one a certain expertise in the field of prostitution.
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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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Don’t give up. There are lessons to be learned even in the most horrendous pain. And you don’t know that when you’re young.
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Good physical condition is protection. Our strength comes from our body.
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All my life I had believed that unless I was perfect I would not be loved.
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