Look what scares you in the face and try to understand it. Empathy is revolutionary.
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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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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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.
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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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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.
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No distractions. Center yourself. This is your time.
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When I’m in Canada, I feel this is what the world should be like.
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I feel like when I was an adolescent, and felt so unworthy of love and so empty, I moved outside of myself.
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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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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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Working in Hollywood does give one a certain expertise in the field of prostitution.
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Stay curious, keep learning and keep growing. And always strive to be more interested than interesting.
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Getting fit is a political act – you are taking charge of your life.
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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 don’t know if a country (America) where the people are so ignorant of reality and of history, if you can call that a free world.
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