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 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.
More Jane Fonda Quotes
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In this country, the only way a minority can get anything done is to make a little noise.
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The institution of marriage is obsolete.
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It’s never too late – never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.
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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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I’ll smoke pot every now and then. I cannot see a movie on pot. The number of movies I’ve seen thinking, This is probably the best I have ever seen, and then I’ll see it again sober and think, What was I thinking?
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But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.
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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.
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If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.
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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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You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.
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All my life I had believed that unless I was perfect I would not be loved.
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An exercise outfit helps because it sets this time apart from the rest of your day and makes it matter more.
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I think the Internet and technology in general has changed everything. We can see it overseas even more with the Arab Spring and so forth.
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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.
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Revolution is an act of love; we are the children of revolution, born to be rebels. It runs in our blood.
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