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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.

Jane Fonda

Perfection is a toxic desire. We are not supposed to be perfect. The challenge is not to be perfect, it’s to be whole.
JANE FONDA

Challenge Desire Perfection Whole
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.
JANE FONDA

Need Perfection Yourself
All my life I had believed that unless I was perfect I would not be loved.
JANE FONDA

Believe Life Love Perfection Yourself
Working in Hollywood does give one a certain expertise in the field of prostitution.
JANE FONDA

Field Oneself Prostitution
Refuse to be afraid that we will no longer be considered attractive and acceptable when we are strong.
JANE FONDA

Acceptance Afraid Attraction Refusal Strong Yourself
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.
JANE FONDA

Assistance Myself People Wait
Revolution is an act of love; we are the children of revolution, born to be rebels. It runs in our blood.
JANE FONDA

Act Blood Born Children Love Ourselves Revolution
Look what scares you in the face and try to understand it. Empathy is revolutionary.
JANE FONDA

Empathy Face Revolution Scare Understand
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.
JANE FONDA

Movie Realize Sex Shock Star Symbol Woman World
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 FONDA

Finding Learning Try Yourself
If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.
JANE FONDA

Career Expectation Reflection Yourself
I 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.
JANE FONDA

Childhood Complete Goodness Myself Perfection Review Time
My life is a stairway to heaven, not a ‘decline into decrepitude.
JANE FONDA

Decline Heaven Life Yourself
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?
JANE FONDA

Drink Movie Myself Smoke Thinking
In this country, the only way a minority can get anything done is to make a little noise.
JANE FONDA

Country Minority Noise Way
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.
JANE FONDA

Country Endurance Force Future Ourselves Poverty Thinking

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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