I was shocked into the realization that I myself had played an unwitting role as a movie star and sex symbol in perpetrating the stereotypes that affected women all over the world.
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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All my life I had believed that unless I was perfect I would not be loved.
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We’ve got to establish a socialistic economic structure that will limit private, profit-oriented businesses.
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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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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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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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The most incredible beauty and the most satisfying way of life come from affirming your own uniqueness.
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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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I think the Internet and technology in general has changed everything. We can see it overseas even more with the Arab Spring and so forth.
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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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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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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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You’re more powerful when talking from your soul.
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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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Winning means some kind of approval of the Establishment which means people will more readily accept me, may be less frightened of me and other people who speak out.
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We’re not meant to be perfect. It took me a long time to learn that.
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