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 FONDASex 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.
More Jane Fonda Quotes
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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 like to think both – it’s not either/or. It’s and.
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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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You think you’re being broken but you’re really being broken open…and that’s where the healing happens, in those broken places…if you’ll allow it.
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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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The glow and energy of the healthy woman is the ultimate beauty, the only beauty that will last.
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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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The most incredible beauty and the most satisfying way of life come from affirming your own uniqueness.
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Getting fit is a political act – you are taking charge of your life.
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The challenge is not to be perfect. It’s to be whole.
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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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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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I finally got it: empower girls and everything changes.
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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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