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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.

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
When I’m in Canada, I feel this is what the world should be like.
JANE FONDA

Country Feeling Myself World
I don’t know if a country (America) where the people are so ignorant of reality and of history, if you can call that a free world.
JANE FONDA

Country Freedom History Known World Yourself
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.
JANE FONDA

Acceptance Approval Kind Myself Talk Winning
In my marriages, I’d lost parts of who I was because I was trying to mold myself into what I thought a man wanted me to be.
JANE FONDA

Be Yourself Lost Man Marriage
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.
JANE FONDA

Different Empathy Eyes Intimacy Relationship Sex Togetherness Yourself
Enjoyable does not necessarily mean easy.
JANE FONDA

Easy Enjoyment Necessary
I feel like when I was an adolescent, and felt so unworthy of love and so empty, I moved outside of myself.
JANE FONDA

Feeling Love Move Myself
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.
JANE FONDA

Confession Myself Properly Treason
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.
JANE FONDA

Intimate Issues Learning Ourselves Relationship Start Thinking
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.
JANE FONDA

Change Internet Myself Thinking
All my life I had believed that unless I was perfect I would not be loved.
JANE FONDA

Believe Life Love Perfection Yourself
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.
JANE FONDA

Discover Friendship Identity Myself Personality Truth
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.
JANE FONDA

Care Give Up Inspirational Motivational Self Love Stay Time Yourself
I have a confidence about my life that comes from standing tall on my own two feet.
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Confidence Life Myself Stand
Getting fit is a political act – you are taking charge of your life.
JANE FONDA

Act Charge Life Politics
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.
JANE FONDA

Better Healing Hurt Quite Remember Yourself
Someone once said that under the bell jar of compliance, the only thing that blooms is rage.
JANE FONDA

Angry Bloom Rage
If you can intervene early in the lives of girls here and in other parts of the world, you can begin to change the prospects for the future.
JANE FONDA

Beginning Early Live Prospect World 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
You’re more powerful when talking from your soul.
JANE FONDA

Powerful Soul Talk Yourself
No distractions. Center yourself. This is your time.
JANE FONDA

Distraction Time Yourself
I like to think both – it’s not either/or. It’s and.
JANE FONDA

Myself Thinking
Good physical condition is protection. Our strength comes from our body.
JANE FONDA

Body Condition Ourselves Protection Strength
Relationships are the oxygen of the psyche.
JANE FONDA

Oxygen Relationship
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.
JANE FONDA

Community Difference Kind People Positive River Understand Yourself
You can run the office without a boss, but you can’t run an office without secretaries.
JANE FONDA

Office Run Secretary Yourself

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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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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