Look what scares you in the face and try to understand it. Empathy is revolutionary.
JANE FONDAWe’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.
More Jane Fonda Quotes
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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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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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We’ve got to establish a socialistic economic structure that will limit private, profit-oriented businesses.
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You’re more powerful when talking from your soul.
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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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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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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 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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You shouldn’t give up. For a while, you have to stay close to the wall and be careful who you spend time with and take care of yourself.
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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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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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Good physical condition is protection. Our strength comes from our body.
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I have a confidence about my life that comes from standing tall on my own two feet.
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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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Enjoyable does not necessarily mean easy.
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