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You shouldn’t give up. For a while, you have to stay close to the wall and be careful who you spend time with and take care of yourself.

Jane Fonda

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
I spent a good deal of time going back over my childhood, my midlife, to try to understand who I was. We’re supposed to be complete and whole, and you can’t be whole if you’re trying to be perfect. Doing a life review helped me get over the disease to please.
JANE FONDA

Childhood Complete Goodness Myself Perfection Review Time
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
I don’t think there’s anything more important than making peace before it’s too late. And it almost always falls to the child to try to move toward the parent.
JANE FONDA

Children Fall Important Myself Parents Thinking
We are not meant to be perfect; we are meant to be whole.
JANE FONDA

Perfection Whole
To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.
JANE FONDA

Human Power Revolution Yourself
Perfection is a toxic desire. We are not supposed to be perfect. The challenge is not to be perfect, it’s to be whole.
JANE FONDA

Challenge Desire Perfection Whole
Physical fitness is a three-legged stool: strength, aerobic capacity, and flexibility.
JANE FONDA

Capacity Exercise Flexibility Strength
My life is a stairway to heaven, not a ‘decline into decrepitude.
JANE FONDA

Decline Heaven Life Yourself
The challenge is not to be perfect. It’s to be whole.
JANE FONDA

Challenge Perfection Whole
Enjoyable does not necessarily mean easy.
JANE FONDA

Easy Enjoyment Necessary
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

Movie Realize Sex Shock Star Symbol Woman World
Getting fit is a political act – you are taking charge of your life.
JANE FONDA

Act Charge Life Politics
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.
JANE FONDA

Discover Friendship Identity Myself Personality Truth
The institution of marriage is obsolete.
JANE FONDA

Institution Marriage
It’s never too late – never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.
JANE FONDA

Beginning Happiness Inspirational Motivational Start
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
I feel like when I was an adolescent, and felt so unworthy of love and so empty, I moved outside of myself.
JANE FONDA

Feeling Love Move Myself
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.
JANE FONDA

Different Empathy Eyes Intimacy Relationship Sex Togetherness Yourself
Refuse to be afraid that we will no longer be considered attractive and acceptable when we are strong.
JANE FONDA

Acceptance Afraid Attraction Refusal Strong 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
No distractions. Center yourself. This is your time.
JANE FONDA

Distraction Time Yourself
If you can intervene early in the lives of girls here and in other parts of the world, you can begin to change the prospects for the future.
JANE FONDA

Beginning Early Live Prospect World Yourself
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
We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.
JANE FONDA

Conscious Control Master Situation Thinking
It is never too late to master your weaknesses.
JANE FONDA

Master Weakness Yourself

You shouldn’t give up. For a while, you have to stay close to the wall and be careful who you spend time with and take care of yourself.

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