I like to think both – it’s not either/or. It’s and.
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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We are not meant to be perfect; we are meant to be whole.
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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 allow yourself, you can become stronger in the very places that you’ve been broken.
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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.
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I finally got it: empower girls and everything changes.
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All my life I had believed that unless I was perfect I would not be loved.
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We’re not meant to be perfect. It took me a long time to learn that.
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Look what scares you in the face and try to understand it. Empathy is revolutionary.
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Enjoyable does not necessarily mean easy.
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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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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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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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You’re more powerful when talking from your soul.
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Physical fitness is a three-legged stool: strength, aerobic capacity, and flexibility.
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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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