I think what’s happening in the world – there’s nothing more dangerous than a wounded beast, and the patriarchy is wounded.
JANE FONDAIf our work is stimulating and rewarding, if it pushes us to grow…we become more valuable human beings.
More Jane Fonda Quotes
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Stay curious, keep learning and keep growing. And always strive to be more interested than interesting.
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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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My life is a stairway to heaven, not a ‘decline into decrepitude.
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You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don’t find easy, or learn an awful lot very fast, which is what I tried to do.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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If our work is stimulating and rewarding, if it pushes us to grow…we become more valuable human beings.
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Christ was the first feminist and because of that I’ve learned from his teaching to call myself a Christian feminist, adding that her faith is not a matter of traditions and dogmas but, rather, a spiritual experience.
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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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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 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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Look what scares you in the face and try to understand it. Empathy is revolutionary.
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Perfection is a toxic desire. We are not supposed to be perfect. The challenge is not to be perfect, it’s to be whole.
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Getting fit is a political act – you are taking charge of your life.
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Enjoyable does not necessarily mean easy.
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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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If you allow yourself, you can become stronger in the very places that you’ve been broken.
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We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.
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I like to think both – it’s not either/or. It’s and.
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Physical fitness is a three-legged stool: strength, aerobic capacity, and flexibility.
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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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When I’m in Canada, I feel this is what the world should be like.
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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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Women are rising. And I think that’s all the violence and war – it could be the last gasp of the patriarchy, actually.
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