I never was a hippie! I went to India because so many friends like Mia Farrow and The Beatles were going there to discover truth. And so I went and trekked through India by myself, but instead of discovering truth, I wanted to join the Peace Corps.
JANE FONDAYou 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.
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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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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You’re more powerful when talking from your soul.
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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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It’s never too late – never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.
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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 like to think both – it’s not either/or. It’s and.
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Look what scares you in the face and try to understand it. Empathy is revolutionary.
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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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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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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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The more you treat yourself positively, the less you’ll want or need to be negative.
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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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I am not a do-gooder. I am a revolutionary. A revolutionary woman.
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The challenge is not to be perfect. It’s to be whole.
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