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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

The bravest soldiers aren’t unafraid, but they’re the ones who are able to harness their fear on behalf of courage.
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Afraid Brave Courage Oneself Soldier
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
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.
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Allow Break Healing Thinking Yourself
Ultimately we must concern ourselves with pulling out by its roots the decadence that controls our culture, the profit motive that controls our culture.
JANE FONDA

Concern Control Culture Motive Ourselves Profit
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.
JANE FONDA

Care Give Up Inspirational Motivational Self Love Stay Time Yourself
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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Conscious Control Master Situation Thinking
Go for the burn! Sweat!
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Burn Effort Exercise Hard Work Motivational
Winning means some kind of approval of the Establishment which means people will more readily accept me, may be less frightened of me and other people who speak out.
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Acceptance Approval Kind Myself Talk Winning
But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.
JANE FONDA

Liberty Point Structure Yourself
We’ve got to establish a socialistic economic structure that will limit private, profit-oriented businesses.
JANE FONDA

Business Economic Establishment Profit Structure
The challenge is not to be perfect. It’s to be whole.
JANE FONDA

Challenge Perfection Whole
I am not a do-gooder. I am a revolutionary. A revolutionary woman.
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Confidence Inspirational Revolutionary Woman Woman Empowerment
I don’t think there’s anything more important than making peace before it’s too late. And it almost always falls to the child to try to move toward the parent.
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Children Fall Important Myself Parents Thinking
Stay curious, keep learning and keep growing. And always strive to be more interested than interesting.
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Curious Interesting Learn Stay
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
Physical fitness is a three-legged stool: strength, aerobic capacity, and flexibility.
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Capacity Exercise Flexibility Strength
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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Actor Carry Different Pay People
The more you treat yourself positively, the less you’ll want or need to be negative.
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Need Negative Treat Yourself
It is never too late to master your weaknesses.
JANE FONDA

Master Weakness Yourself
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
Look what scares you in the face and try to understand it. Empathy is revolutionary.
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Empathy Face Revolution Scare Understand
I feel like when I was an adolescent, and felt so unworthy of love and so empty, I moved outside of myself.
JANE FONDA

Feeling Love Move Myself
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
I always had a penchant for falling in love. Every time I found myself without a mate, I fell into a state of low-sizzling panic.
JANE FONDA

Fall In Love Myself Panic State
When you can’t remember why you’re hurt, that’s when you’re healed. When you have to work real hard to re-create the pain, and you can’t quite get there, that’s when you’re better.
JANE FONDA

Better Healing Hurt Quite Remember Yourself
Enjoyable does not necessarily mean easy.
JANE FONDA

Easy Enjoyment Necessary
One part of wisdom is knowing what you don’t need anymore and letting it go.
JANE FONDA

Let Go Need Wisdom

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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