You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.
JANE FONDAYou spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.
JANE FONDAI thought I had learned how to have an intimate relationship. And I thought I’d learned how to be happy. Everybody has issues. For me, the challenge is intimacy, but I really didn’t start to get that until I turned 60.
JANE FONDAGo for the burn! Sweat!
JANE FONDAI 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 FONDAIt’s better to be interested than interesting.
JANE FONDAThe challenge is not to be perfect. It’s to be whole.
JANE FONDAInstead 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.
JANE FONDANo distractions. Center yourself. This is your time.
JANE FONDAWe 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 FONDAIn this country, the only way a minority can get anything done is to make a little noise.
JANE FONDAWhen 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.
JANE FONDAYou can run the office without a boss, but you can’t run an office without secretaries.
JANE FONDAWomen are rising. And I think that’s all the violence and war – it could be the last gasp of the patriarchy, actually.
JANE FONDAChrist 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.
JANE FONDAWhen 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 FONDAThe glow and energy of the healthy woman is the ultimate beauty, the only beauty that will last.
JANE FONDA