Women are rising. And I think that’s all the violence and war – it could be the last gasp of the patriarchy, actually.
JANE FONDAWhen you know in your heart why you did something, and you feel and you know that in spite of all the controversy that it was right, doesn’t matter.
More Jane Fonda Quotes
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Good physical condition is protection. Our strength comes from our body.
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If you allow yourself, you can become stronger in the very places that you’ve been broken.
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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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Revolution is an act of love; we are the children of revolution, born to be rebels. It runs in our blood.
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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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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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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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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.
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I finally got it: empower girls and everything changes.
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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.
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We’re not meant to be perfect. It took me a long time to learn that.
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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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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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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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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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I am not a do-gooder. I am a revolutionary. A revolutionary woman.
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Enjoyable does not necessarily mean easy.
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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.
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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.
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Refuse to be afraid that we will no longer be considered attractive and acceptable when we are strong.
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I don’t know if a country (America) where the people are so ignorant of reality and of history, if you can call that a free world.
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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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Eat only when you are hungry-not because it is one o’clock or seven o’clock or whatever.
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Working in Hollywood does give one a certain expertise in the field of prostitution.
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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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The glow and energy of the healthy woman is the ultimate beauty, the only beauty that will last.
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