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 FONDAYou spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.
More Jane Fonda Quotes
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I am not a do-gooder. I am a revolutionary. A revolutionary woman.
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Go for the burn! Sweat!
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I’ll smoke pot every now and then. I cannot see a movie on pot. The number of movies I’ve seen thinking, This is probably the best I have ever seen, and then I’ll see it again sober and think, What was I thinking?
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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.
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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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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.
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The institution of marriage is obsolete.
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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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Someone once said that under the bell jar of compliance, the only thing that blooms is rage.
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But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.
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Christ was the first feminist and because of that I’ve learned from his teaching to call myself a Christian feminist, adding that her faith is not a matter of traditions and dogmas but, rather, a spiritual experience.
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I finally got it: empower girls and everything changes.
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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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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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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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