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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

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
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
Good physical condition is protection. Our strength comes from our body.
JANE FONDA

Body Condition Ourselves Protection Strength
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
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.
JANE FONDA

Actor Carry Different Pay People
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
I’m an assistant storyteller. It’s like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I’m waiting on six million people a week, if I’m lucky.
JANE FONDA

Assistance Myself People Wait
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
You can run the office without a boss, but you can’t run an office without secretaries.
JANE FONDA

Office Run Secretary 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.
JANE FONDA

Discover Friendship Identity Myself Personality Truth
I have a confidence about my life that comes from standing tall on my own two feet.
JANE FONDA

Confidence Life Myself Stand
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
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
The glow and energy of the healthy woman is the ultimate beauty, the only beauty that will last.
JANE FONDA

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

Allow Break Place Strong Yourself
You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.
JANE FONDA

Asylum Life Mental People 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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