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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.

Jane Fonda

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.
JANE FONDA

Communalism Hope Myself Politics Prayer Socialist Understand
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 FONDA

Learning Mistake Scars Success Truth Wound 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.
JANE FONDA

Different Empathy Eyes Intimacy Relationship Sex Togetherness Yourself
No distractions. Center yourself. This is your time.
JANE FONDA

Distraction Time Yourself
If you allow yourself, you can become stronger in the very places that you’ve been broken.
JANE FONDA

Allow Break Place Strong Yourself
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 what’s happening in the world – there’s nothing more dangerous than a wounded beast, and the patriarchy is wounded.
JANE FONDA

Dangerous Myself Patriarchy Thinking World Wound
I have a confidence about my life that comes from standing tall on my own two feet.
JANE FONDA

Confidence Life Myself Stand
The challenge is not to be perfect. It’s to be whole.
JANE FONDA

Challenge Perfection Whole
We are not meant to be perfect; we are meant to be whole.
JANE FONDA

Perfection Whole
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
The glow and energy of the healthy woman is the ultimate beauty, the only beauty that will last.
JANE FONDA

Beautiful Energy Glow Healthy Woman
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.
JANE FONDA

Actor Carry Different Pay People
I don’t think there’s anything more important than making peace before it’s too late. And it almost always falls to the child to try to move toward the parent.
JANE FONDA

Children Fall Important Myself Parents Thinking
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 FONDA

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The more you treat yourself positively, the less you’ll want or need to be negative.
JANE FONDA

Need Negative Treat Yourself
You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.
JANE FONDA

Asylum Life Mental People Yourself
We’re still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That’s the old metaphor: You’re born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude.
JANE FONDA

Age Born Live Yourself
Whatever kind of workout you settle on, it should include the Big Three of exercise for health and fitness-aerobics, resistance exercises, and stretching.
JANE FONDA

Exercise Kind Resistance Stretching Yourself
But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.
JANE FONDA

Liberty Point Structure Yourself
Someone once said that under the bell jar of compliance, the only thing that blooms is rage.
JANE FONDA

Angry Bloom Rage
An exercise outfit helps because it sets this time apart from the rest of your day and makes it matter more.
JANE FONDA

Day Exercise Help Yourself
You’re more powerful when talking from your soul.
JANE FONDA

Powerful Soul Talk Yourself
If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.
JANE FONDA

Career Expectation Reflection Yourself
Ultimately we must concern ourselves with pulling out by its roots the decadence that controls our culture, the profit motive that controls our culture.
JANE FONDA

Concern Control Culture Motive Ourselves Profit
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
To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.
JANE FONDA

Human Power Revolution Yourself

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