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My life is a stairway to heaven, not a ‘decline into decrepitude.

Jane Fonda

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

Asylum Life Mental People Yourself
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 FONDA

Alone Brave Challenge End Myself Person
The more you treat yourself positively, the less you’ll want or need to be negative.
JANE FONDA

Need Negative Treat Yourself
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
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
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
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.
JANE FONDA

Intimate Issues Learning Ourselves Relationship Start Thinking
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
Eat only when you are hungry-not because it is one o’clock or seven o’clock or whatever.
JANE FONDA

Food Health Hungry Yourself
I am not a do-gooder. I am a revolutionary. A revolutionary woman.
JANE FONDA

Confidence Inspirational Revolutionary Woman Woman Empowerment
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
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
If you allow yourself, you can become stronger in the very places that you’ve been broken.
JANE FONDA

Allow Break Place Strong Yourself
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

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