You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.
JANE FONDAIf 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.
More Jane Fonda Quotes
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We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.
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Relationships are the oxygen of the psyche.
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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 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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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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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’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.
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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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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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Look what scares you in the face and try to understand it. Empathy is revolutionary.
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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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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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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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My life is a stairway to heaven, not a ‘decline into decrepitude.
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My greatest asset is that I am constantly changing.
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