I feel like when I was an adolescent, and felt so unworthy of love and so empty, I moved outside of myself.
JANE FONDAIn 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.
More Jane Fonda Quotes
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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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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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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 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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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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We are not meant to be perfect; we are meant to be whole.
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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 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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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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We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.
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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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The glow and energy of the healthy woman is the ultimate beauty, the only beauty that will last.
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When you know in your heart why you did something, and you feel and you know that in spite of all the controversy that it was right, doesn’t matter.
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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.
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