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.
JANE FONDAWe’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.
More Jane Fonda Quotes
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Enjoyable does not necessarily mean easy.
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To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.
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I am not a do-gooder. I am a revolutionary. A revolutionary woman.
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The challenge is not to be perfect. It’s to be whole.
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All my life I had believed that unless I was perfect I would not be loved.
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If our work is stimulating and rewarding, if it pushes us to grow…we become more valuable human beings.
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You’re more powerful when talking from your soul.
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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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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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One part of wisdom is knowing what you don’t need anymore and letting it go.
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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 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 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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Relationships are the oxygen of the psyche.
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I’ll smoke pot every now and then. I cannot see a movie on pot. The number of movies I’ve seen thinking, This is probably the best I have ever seen, and then I’ll see it again sober and think, What was I thinking?
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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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Eat only when you are hungry-not because it is one o’clock or seven o’clock or whatever.
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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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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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I like to think both – it’s not either/or. It’s and.
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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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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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Refuse to be afraid that we will no longer be considered attractive and acceptable when we are strong.
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It is never too late to master your weaknesses.
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When you can’t remember why you’re hurt, that’s when you’re healed. When you have to work real hard to re-create the pain, and you can’t quite get there, that’s when you’re better.
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I’m a very brave person. I can go to North Vietnam, I can challenge my government, but I can’t challenge the man I’m with if means I’m going to end up alone.
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