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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.

Jane Fonda

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.
JANE FONDA

Be Yourself Lost Man Marriage
Perfection is a toxic desire. We are not supposed to be perfect. The challenge is not to be perfect, it’s to be whole.
JANE FONDA

Challenge Desire Perfection Whole
It is never too late to master your weaknesses.
JANE FONDA

Master Weakness Yourself
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.
JANE FONDA

Age Born Live Yourself
To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.
JANE FONDA

Human Power Revolution Yourself
Eat only when you are hungry-not because it is one o’clock or seven o’clock or whatever.
JANE FONDA

Food Health Hungry Yourself
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.
JANE FONDA

Childhood Complete Goodness Myself Perfection Review Time
Enjoyable does not necessarily mean easy.
JANE FONDA

Easy Enjoyment Necessary
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.
JANE FONDA

Country Freedom History Known World Yourself
If you understood what communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees that we would some day become communist. I, a socialist, think that we should strive toward a socialist society, all the way to communism.
JANE FONDA

Communalism Hope Myself Politics Prayer Socialist Understand
If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.
JANE FONDA

Career Expectation Reflection Yourself
When I’m in Canada, I feel this is what the world should be like.
JANE FONDA

Country Feeling Myself World
My life is a stairway to heaven, not a ‘decline into decrepitude.
JANE FONDA

Decline Heaven Life Yourself
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.
JANE FONDA

Give Up Knowledge Known Learning Lesson Young Yourself
Women are rising. And I think that’s all the violence and war – it could be the last gasp of the patriarchy, actually.
JANE FONDA

Myself Patriarchy Rise Thinking Violence War Woman
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.
JANE FONDA

Different Empathy Eyes Intimacy Relationship Sex Togetherness Yourself
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.
JANE FONDA

Country Endurance Force Future Ourselves Poverty Thinking
If our work is stimulating and rewarding, if it pushes us to grow…we become more valuable human beings.
JANE FONDA

Growth Human Ourselves Stimulation Value Work
You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.
JANE FONDA

Asylum Life Mental People Yourself
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 FONDA

Allow Break Healing Thinking Yourself
I have a confidence about my life that comes from standing tall on my own two feet.
JANE FONDA

Confidence Life Myself Stand
I confess. If the law had been appiled to me properly for what I did in Vietnam, I’d have been convicted for high treason.
JANE FONDA

Confession Myself Properly Treason
One part of wisdom is knowing what you don’t need anymore and letting it go.
JANE FONDA

Let Go Need Wisdom
The institution of marriage is obsolete.
JANE FONDA

Institution Marriage
The people who did you wrong or who didn’t quite know how to show up, you forgive them. And forgiving them allows you to forgive yourself too.
JANE FONDA

Forgiveness People Quite Wrong Yourself
My greatest asset is that I am constantly changing.
JANE FONDA

Asset Change Greatness Myself
Getting fit is a political act – you are taking charge of your life.
JANE FONDA

Act Charge Life Politics

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