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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.

Jane Fonda

If you allow yourself, you can become stronger in the very places that you’ve been broken.
JANE FONDA

Allow Break Place Strong Yourself
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
We don’t need to be perfect. We’re not supposed to be perfect; we’re supposed to be complete. And you can’t be complete if you’re trying to be perfect.
JANE FONDA

Need Perfection Yourself
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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Different Empathy Eyes Intimacy Relationship Sex Togetherness 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
I was in my mid-40s. I was a bulimic, and I realized if I continue with this addiction of mine, I will not be able to continue doing my life. The older you get the more damage it does; it takes longer to recover from a binge. And it was very hard.
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Addiction Age Bully Damage Hard Mental Myself Old
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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Myself Patriarchy Rise Thinking Violence War Woman
The secret of losing weight is patience.
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Lose Patience Secret Weight
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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Alone Brave Challenge End Myself Person
Eat only when you are hungry-not because it is one o’clock or seven o’clock or whatever.
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Food Health Hungry Yourself
I 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.
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Discover Friendship Identity Myself Personality Truth
I like to think both – it’s not either/or. It’s and.
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Myself Thinking
You can run the office without a boss, but you can’t run an office without secretaries.
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Office Run Secretary Yourself
When I’m in Canada, I feel this is what the world should be like.
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Country Feeling Myself World
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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Movie Realize Sex Shock Star Symbol Woman World
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

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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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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