You don’t learn from successes; you don’t learn from awards; you don’t learn from celebrity; you only learn from wounds and scars and mistakes and failures. And that’s the truth.
JANE FONDABut the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.
More Jane Fonda Quotes
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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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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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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.
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We all, in fact, carry so many people inside us; the only difference is that actors get paid for it, and we sort of spruce it up a bit.
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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.
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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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In this country, the only way a minority can get anything done is to make a little noise.
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If our work is stimulating and rewarding, if it pushes us to grow…we become more valuable human beings.
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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.
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We’re not meant to be perfect. It took me a long time to learn that.
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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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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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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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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.
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The challenge is not to be perfect. It’s to be whole.
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