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 FONDAI have a confidence about my life that comes from standing tall on my own two feet.
More Jane Fonda Quotes
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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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If our work is stimulating and rewarding, if it pushes us to grow…we become more valuable human beings.
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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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But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.
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Look what scares you in the face and try to understand it. Empathy is revolutionary.
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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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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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You can run the office without a boss, but you can’t run an office without secretaries.
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The institution of marriage is obsolete.
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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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The more you treat yourself positively, the less you’ll want or need to be negative.
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When I’m in Canada, I feel this is what the world should be like.
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I’ll smoke pot every now and then. I cannot see a movie on pot. The number of movies I’ve seen thinking, This is probably the best I have ever seen, and then I’ll see it again sober and think, What was I thinking?
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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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We don’t need to be perfect. We’re not supposed to be perfect; we’re supposed to be complete. And you can’t be complete if you’re trying to be perfect.
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