I’m a very brave person. I can go to North Vietnam, I can challenge my government, but I can’t challenge the man I’m with if means I’m going to end up alone.
JANE FONDAI 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.
More Jane Fonda Quotes
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We are not meant to be perfect; we are meant to be whole.
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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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My greatest asset is that I am constantly changing.
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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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Getting fit is a political act – you are taking charge of your life.
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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 can run the office without a boss, but you can’t run an office without secretaries.
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My life is a stairway to heaven, not a ‘decline into decrepitude.
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Whatever kind of workout you settle on, it should include the Big Three of exercise for health and fitness-aerobics, resistance exercises, and stretching.
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It is never too late to master your weaknesses.
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All my life I had believed that unless I was perfect I would not be loved.
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The most incredible beauty and the most satisfying way of life come from affirming your own uniqueness.
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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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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.
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The people who did you wrong or who didn’t quite know how to show up, you forgive them. And forgiving them allows you to forgive yourself too.
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