You think you’re being broken but you’re really being broken open…and that’s where the healing happens, in those broken places…if you’ll allow it.
JANE FONDAI 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.
More Jane Fonda Quotes
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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 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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Someone once said that under the bell jar of compliance, the only thing that blooms is rage.
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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’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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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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One part of wisdom is knowing what you don’t need anymore and letting it go.
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My life is a stairway to heaven, not a ‘decline into decrepitude.
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The glow and energy of the healthy woman is the ultimate beauty, the only beauty that will last.
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Working in Hollywood does give one a certain expertise in the field of prostitution.
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I thought I had learned how to have an intimate relationship. And I thought I’d learned how to be happy. Everybody has issues. For me, the challenge is intimacy, but I really didn’t start to get that until I turned 60.
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Sex and intimacy are not the same: You can have sex all your life and never be intimate with a person. There has to be empathy in the relationship. You have to enjoy seeing through their eyes. When you’re with them, you’re there and not thinking about what you’re gonna do tomorrow.
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I am not a do-gooder. I am a revolutionary. A revolutionary woman.
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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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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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