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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.

Jane Fonda

The challenge is not to be perfect. It’s to be whole.
JANE FONDA

Challenge Perfection Whole
It is never too late to master your weaknesses.
JANE FONDA

Master Weakness Yourself
If you allow yourself, you can become stronger in the very places that you’ve been broken.
JANE FONDA

Allow Break Place Strong Yourself
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
Ultimately we must concern ourselves with pulling out by its roots the decadence that controls our culture, the profit motive that controls our culture.
JANE FONDA

Concern Control Culture Motive Ourselves Profit
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
Enjoyable does not necessarily mean easy.
JANE FONDA

Easy Enjoyment Necessary
I finally got it: empower girls and everything changes.
JANE FONDA

Change Empowerment Inspirational Woman World
I think what’s happening in the world – there’s nothing more dangerous than a wounded beast, and the patriarchy is wounded.
JANE FONDA

Dangerous Myself Patriarchy Thinking World Wound
All my life I had believed that unless I was perfect I would not be loved.
JANE FONDA

Believe Life Love Perfection Yourself
When you can’t remember why you’re hurt, that’s when you’re healed. When you have to work real hard to re-create the pain, and you can’t quite get there, that’s when you’re better.
JANE FONDA

Better Healing Hurt Quite Remember Yourself
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.
JANE FONDA

Assistance Myself People Wait
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.
JANE FONDA

Learning Mistake Scars Success Truth Wound Yourself
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.
JANE FONDA

Forgiveness People Quite Wrong Yourself
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
No distractions. Center yourself. This is your time.
JANE FONDA

Distraction Time Yourself
You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.
JANE FONDA

Asylum Life Mental People Yourself
Good physical condition is protection. Our strength comes from our body.
JANE FONDA

Body Condition Ourselves Protection Strength
Women are rising. And I think that’s all the violence and war – it could be the last gasp of the patriarchy, actually.
JANE FONDA

Myself Patriarchy Rise Thinking Violence War Woman
The most incredible beauty and the most satisfying way of life come from affirming your own uniqueness.
JANE FONDA

Affirmation Beautiful Satisfaction Unique Yourself
My life is a stairway to heaven, not a ‘decline into decrepitude.
JANE FONDA

Decline Heaven Life Yourself
Working in Hollywood does give one a certain expertise in the field of prostitution.
JANE FONDA

Field Oneself Prostitution
If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.
JANE FONDA

Career Expectation Reflection Yourself
Getting fit is a political act – you are taking charge of your life.
JANE FONDA

Act Charge Life Politics
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
It’s better to be interested than interesting.
JANE FONDA

Better Choice Interest Value
I always had a penchant for falling in love. Every time I found myself without a mate, I fell into a state of low-sizzling panic.
JANE FONDA

Fall In Love Myself Panic State

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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