I am not a do-gooder. I am a revolutionary. A revolutionary woman.
JANE FONDAPhysical fitness is a three-legged stool: strength, aerobic capacity, and flexibility.
More Jane Fonda Quotes
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Eat only when you are hungry-not because it is one o’clock or seven o’clock or whatever.
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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 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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Look what scares you in the face and try to understand it. Empathy is revolutionary.
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My greatest asset is that I am constantly changing.
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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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Getting fit is a political act – you are taking charge of your life.
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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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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.
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We all, in fact, carry so many people inside us; the only difference is that actors get paid for it, and we sort of spruce it up a bit.
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I always had a penchant for falling in love. Every time I found myself without a mate, I fell into a state of low-sizzling panic.
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To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.
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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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When you can’t remember why you’re hurt, that’s when you’re healed. When you have to work real hard to re-create the pain, and you can’t quite get there, that’s when you’re better.
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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’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’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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If you allow yourself, you can become stronger in the very places that you’ve been broken.
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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 not meant to be perfect. It took me a long time to learn that.
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One part of wisdom is knowing what you don’t need anymore and letting it go.
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You don’t learn from successes; you don’t learn from awards; you don’t learn from celebrity; you only learn from wounds and scars and mistakes and failures. And that’s the truth.
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Relationships are the oxygen of the psyche.
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No distractions. Center yourself. This is your time.
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An exercise outfit helps because it sets this time apart from the rest of your day and makes it matter more.
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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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