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 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 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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Christ was the first feminist and because of that I’ve learned from his teaching to call myself a Christian feminist, adding that her faith is not a matter of traditions and dogmas but, rather, a spiritual experience.
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Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to people and what kind of an impact you have on the people around you and the community around you and the world, so that when you go out, you can feel you have made a positive difference.
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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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Don’t give up. There are lessons to be learned even in the most horrendous pain. And you don’t know that when you’re young.
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Think about it: Reducing crime and poverty and ensuring that we have an educated, stable work force has a direct effect on you and me and the future of our country.
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Working in Hollywood does give one a certain expertise in the field of prostitution.
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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 spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.
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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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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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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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When you know in your heart why you did something, and you feel and you know that in spite of all the controversy that it was right, doesn’t matter.
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My life is a stairway to heaven, not a ‘decline into decrepitude.
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If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.
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