The challenge is not to be perfect. It’s to be whole.
JANE FONDAYou spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.
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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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Good physical condition is protection. Our strength comes from our body.
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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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An exercise outfit helps because it sets this time apart from the rest of your day and makes it matter more.
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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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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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We’ve got to establish a socialistic economic structure that will limit private, profit-oriented businesses.
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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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But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.
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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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No distractions. Center yourself. This is your time.
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When I’m in Canada, I feel this is what the world should be like.
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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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We’re not meant to be perfect. It took me a long time to learn that.
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To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.
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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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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 spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.
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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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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.
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Getting fit is a political act – you are taking charge of your life.
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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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I like to think both – it’s not either/or. It’s and.
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The secret of losing weight is patience.
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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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You’re more powerful when talking from your soul.
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