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.
JANE FONDAI 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.
More Jane Fonda Quotes
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Stay curious, keep learning and keep growing. And always strive to be more interested than interesting.
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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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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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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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My greatest asset is that I am constantly changing.
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The more you treat yourself positively, the less you’ll want or need to be negative.
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Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to people and what kind of an impact you have on the people around you and the community around you and the world, so that when you go out, you can feel you have made a positive difference.
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I think the Internet and technology in general has changed everything. We can see it overseas even more with the Arab Spring and so forth.
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You shouldn’t give up. For a while, you have to stay close to the wall and be careful who you spend time with and take care of yourself.
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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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You can run the office without a boss, but you can’t run an office without secretaries.
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I have a confidence about my life that comes from standing tall on my own two feet.
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My life is a stairway to heaven, not a ‘decline into decrepitude.
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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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