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 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.
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Someone once said that under the bell jar of compliance, the only thing that blooms is rage.
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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 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 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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Enjoyable does not necessarily mean easy.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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Don’t give up. There are lessons to be learned even in the most horrendous pain. And you don’t know that when you’re young.
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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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Perfection is a toxic desire. We are not supposed to be perfect. The challenge is not to be perfect, it’s to be whole.
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I like to think both – it’s not either/or. It’s and.
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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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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.
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