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 FONDAIf 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.
More Jane Fonda Quotes
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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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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.
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The more you treat yourself positively, the less you’ll want or need to be negative.
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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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Stay curious, keep learning and keep growing. And always strive to be more interested than interesting.
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Look what scares you in the face and try to understand it. Empathy is revolutionary.
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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.
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The most incredible beauty and the most satisfying way of life come from affirming your own uniqueness.
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The secret of losing weight is patience.
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I think what’s happening in the world – there’s nothing more dangerous than a wounded beast, and the patriarchy is wounded.
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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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To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.
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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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All my life I had believed that unless I was perfect I would not be loved.
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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.
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