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Jane Fonda

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
My life is a stairway to heaven, not a ‘decline into decrepitude.
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Decline Heaven Life Yourself
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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Country Freedom History Known World Yourself
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.
JANE FONDA

Country Endurance Force Future Ourselves Poverty Thinking
I am not a do-gooder. I am a revolutionary. A revolutionary woman.
JANE FONDA

Confidence Inspirational Revolutionary Woman Woman Empowerment
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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Assistance Myself People Wait
Look what scares you in the face and try to understand it. Empathy is revolutionary.
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Empathy Face Revolution Scare Understand
I like to think both – it’s not either/or. It’s and.
JANE FONDA

Myself Thinking
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
We’ve got to establish a socialistic economic structure that will limit private, profit-oriented businesses.
JANE FONDA

Business Economic Establishment Profit Structure
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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Childhood Complete Goodness Myself Perfection Review Time
Working in Hollywood does give one a certain expertise in the field of prostitution.
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Field Oneself Prostitution
The challenge is not to be perfect. It’s to be whole.
JANE FONDA

Challenge Perfection Whole
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.
JANE FONDA

Finding Learning Try Yourself
The glow and energy of the healthy woman is the ultimate beauty, the only beauty that will last.
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Beautiful Energy Glow Healthy Woman
The institution of marriage is obsolete.
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Institution Marriage
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
In this country, the only way a minority can get anything done is to make a little noise.
JANE FONDA

Country Minority Noise Way
The most incredible beauty and the most satisfying way of life come from affirming your own uniqueness.
JANE FONDA

Affirmation Beautiful Satisfaction Unique 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
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
Go for the burn! Sweat!
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Burn Effort Exercise Hard Work Motivational
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
We are not meant to be perfect; we are meant to be whole.
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Perfection Whole
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.
JANE FONDA

Addiction Age Bully Damage Hard Mental Myself Old
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.
JANE FONDA

Controversy Feeling Heart Yourself
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

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