It’s better to be interested than interesting.
JANE FONDAI 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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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 don’t need to be perfect. We’re not supposed to be perfect; we’re supposed to be complete. And you can’t be complete if you’re trying to be perfect.
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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.
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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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When I’m in Canada, I feel this is what the world should be like.
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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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Look what scares you in the face and try to understand it. Empathy is revolutionary.
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In this country, the only way a minority can get anything done is to make a little noise.
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I finally got it: empower girls and everything changes.
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Relationships are the oxygen of the psyche.
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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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The glow and energy of the healthy woman is the ultimate beauty, the only beauty that will last.
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Physical fitness is a three-legged stool: strength, aerobic capacity, and flexibility.
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It is never too late to master your weaknesses.
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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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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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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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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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The more you treat yourself positively, the less you’ll want or need to be negative.
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I feel like when I was an adolescent, and felt so unworthy of love and so empty, I moved outside of myself.
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The secret of losing weight is patience.
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Enjoyable does not necessarily mean easy.
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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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I have a confidence about my life that comes from standing tall on my own two feet.
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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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Eat only when you are hungry-not because it is one o’clock or seven o’clock or whatever.
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