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We’re not meant to be perfect. It took me a long time to learn that.

Jane Fonda

The bravest soldiers aren’t unafraid, but they’re the ones who are able to harness their fear on behalf of courage.
JANE FONDA

Afraid Brave Courage Oneself Soldier
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 am not a do-gooder. I am a revolutionary. A revolutionary woman.
JANE FONDA

Confidence Inspirational Revolutionary Woman Woman Empowerment
Go for the burn! Sweat!
JANE FONDA

Burn Effort Exercise Hard Work Motivational
No distractions. Center yourself. This is your time.
JANE FONDA

Distraction Time Yourself
You think you’re being broken but you’re really being broken open…and that’s where the healing happens, in those broken places…if you’ll allow it.
JANE FONDA

Allow Break Healing Thinking Yourself
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?
JANE FONDA

Drink Movie Myself Smoke Thinking
Relationships are the oxygen of the psyche.
JANE FONDA

Oxygen Relationship
If our work is stimulating and rewarding, if it pushes us to grow…we become more valuable human beings.
JANE FONDA

Growth Human Ourselves Stimulation Value Work
My greatest asset is that I am constantly changing.
JANE FONDA

Asset Change Greatness Myself
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
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
Working in Hollywood does give one a certain expertise in the field of prostitution.
JANE FONDA

Field Oneself Prostitution
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
The secret of losing weight is patience.
JANE FONDA

Lose Patience Secret Weight
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 have a confidence about my life that comes from standing tall on my own two feet.
JANE FONDA

Confidence Life Myself Stand
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
The institution of marriage is obsolete.
JANE FONDA

Institution Marriage
I like to think both – it’s not either/or. It’s and.
JANE FONDA

Myself Thinking
When 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.
JANE FONDA

Controversy Feeling Heart Yourself
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.
JANE FONDA

Age Born Live Yourself
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
Think about it: Reducing crime and poverty and ensuring that we have an educated, stable work force has a direct effect on you and me and the future of our country.
JANE FONDA

Country Endurance Force Future Ourselves Poverty Thinking
But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.
JANE FONDA

Liberty Point Structure Yourself
In this country, the only way a minority can get anything done is to make a little noise.
JANE FONDA

Country Minority Noise Way
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.
JANE FONDA

Change Internet Myself Thinking

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