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.
JANE FONDALook what scares you in the face and try to understand it. Empathy is revolutionary.
More Jane Fonda Quotes
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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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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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Getting fit is a political act – you are taking charge of your life.
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All my life I had believed that unless I was perfect I would not be loved.
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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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Look what scares you in the face and try to understand it. Empathy is revolutionary.
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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 confess. If the law had been appiled to me properly for what I did in Vietnam, I’d have been convicted for high treason.
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One part of wisdom is knowing what you don’t need anymore and letting it go.
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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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Enjoyable does not necessarily mean easy.
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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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If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.
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Working in Hollywood does give one a certain expertise in the field of prostitution.
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