Women are rising. And I think that’s all the violence and war – it could be the last gasp of the patriarchy, actually.
JANE FONDAI think the Internet and technology in general has changed everything. We can see it overseas even more with the Arab Spring and so forth.
More Jane Fonda Quotes
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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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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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In this country, the only way a minority can get anything done is to make a little noise.
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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 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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Winning means some kind of approval of the Establishment which means people will more readily accept me, may be less frightened of me and other people who speak out.
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I am not a do-gooder. I am a revolutionary. A revolutionary woman.
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I like to think both – it’s not either/or. It’s and.
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I finally got it: empower girls and everything changes.
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We are not meant to be perfect; we are meant to be whole.
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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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Refuse to be afraid that we will no longer be considered attractive and acceptable when we are strong.
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Go for the burn! Sweat!
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We’re not meant to be perfect. It took me a long time to learn that.
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You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.
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I never was a hippie! I went to India because so many friends like Mia Farrow and The Beatles were going there to discover truth. And so I went and trekked through India by myself, but instead of discovering truth, I wanted to join the Peace Corps.
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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 have a confidence about my life that comes from standing tall on my own two feet.
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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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If 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.
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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.
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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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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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The more you treat yourself positively, the less you’ll want or need to be negative.
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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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