I think what’s happening in the world – there’s nothing more dangerous than a wounded beast, and the patriarchy is wounded.
JANE FONDAGo for the burn! Sweat!
More Jane Fonda Quotes
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It’s better to be interested than interesting.
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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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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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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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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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My greatest asset is that I am constantly changing.
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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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My life is a stairway to heaven, not a ‘decline into decrepitude.
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Look what scares you in the face and try to understand it. Empathy is revolutionary.
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The institution of marriage is obsolete.
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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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Enjoyable does not necessarily mean easy.
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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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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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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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