All my life I had believed that unless I was perfect I would not be loved.
JANE FONDATo be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.
More Jane Fonda Quotes
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We’ve got to establish a socialistic economic structure that will limit private, profit-oriented businesses.
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Go for the burn! Sweat!
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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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We are not meant to be perfect; we are meant to be whole.
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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 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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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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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’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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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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You can run the office without a boss, but you can’t run an office without secretaries.
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We’re not meant to be perfect. It took me a long time to learn that.
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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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It’s never too late – never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.
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My greatest asset is that I am constantly changing.
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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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The institution of marriage is obsolete.
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Look what scares you in the face and try to understand it. Empathy is revolutionary.
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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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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 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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The people who did you wrong or who didn’t quite know how to show up, you forgive them. And forgiving them allows you to forgive yourself too.
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I finally got it: empower girls and everything changes.
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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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