You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.
JANE FONDAI spent a good deal of time going back over my childhood, my midlife, to try to understand who I was. We’re supposed to be complete and whole, and you can’t be whole if you’re trying to be perfect. Doing a life review helped me get over the disease to please.
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You’re more powerful when talking from your soul.
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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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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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When I’m in Canada, I feel this is what the world should be like.
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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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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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One part of wisdom is knowing what you don’t need anymore and letting it go.
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I like to think both – it’s not either/or. It’s and.
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Ultimately we must concern ourselves with pulling out by its roots the decadence that controls our culture, the profit motive that controls our culture.
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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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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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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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Relationships are the oxygen of the psyche.
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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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The glow and energy of the healthy woman is the ultimate beauty, the only beauty that will last.
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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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We’re not meant to be perfect. It took me a long time to learn that.
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It is never too late to master your weaknesses.
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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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Getting fit is a political act – you are taking charge of your life.
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We are not meant to be perfect; we are meant to be whole.
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Revolution is an act of love; we are the children of revolution, born to be rebels. It runs in our blood.
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If you allow yourself, you can become stronger in the very places that you’ve been broken.
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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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The institution of marriage is obsolete.
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My greatest asset is that I am constantly changing.
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