Women are rising. And I think that’s all the violence and war – it could be the last gasp of the patriarchy, actually.
JANE FONDAI confess. If the law had been appiled to me properly for what I did in Vietnam, I’d have been convicted for high treason.
More Jane Fonda Quotes
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Don’t give up. There are lessons to be learned even in the most horrendous pain. And you don’t know that when you’re young.
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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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Someone once said that under the bell jar of compliance, the only thing that blooms is rage.
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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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My life is a stairway to heaven, not a ‘decline into decrepitude.
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When I’m in Canada, I feel this is what the world should be like.
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Look what scares you in the face and try to understand it. Empathy is revolutionary.
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Physical fitness is a three-legged stool: strength, aerobic capacity, and flexibility.
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The challenge is not to be perfect. It’s to be whole.
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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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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.
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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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It’s better to be interested than interesting.
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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 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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