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 FONDAGetting fit is a political act – you are taking charge of your life.
More Jane Fonda Quotes
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You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.
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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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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’re not meant to be perfect. It took me a long time to learn that.
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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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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 feel like when I was an adolescent, and felt so unworthy of love and so empty, I moved outside of myself.
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Go for the burn! Sweat!
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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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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 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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All my life I had believed that unless I was perfect I would not be loved.
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Getting fit is a political act – you are taking charge of your life.
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Relationships are the oxygen of the psyche.
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Good physical condition is protection. Our strength comes from our body.
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Ultimately we must concern ourselves with pulling out by its roots the decadence that controls our culture, the profit motive that controls our culture.
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Look what scares you in the face and try to understand it. Empathy is revolutionary.
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Working in Hollywood does give one a certain expertise in the field of prostitution.
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The bravest soldiers aren’t unafraid, but they’re the ones who are able to harness their fear on behalf of courage.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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The challenge is not to be perfect. It’s to be whole.
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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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In my marriages, I’d lost parts of who I was because I was trying to mold myself into what I thought a man wanted me to be.
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