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I 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 Fonda

We are not meant to be perfect; we are meant to be whole.
JANE FONDA

Perfection Whole
Sex and intimacy are not the same: You can have sex all your life and never be intimate with a person. There has to be empathy in the relationship. You have to enjoy seeing through their eyes. When you’re with them, you’re there and not thinking about what you’re gonna do tomorrow.
JANE FONDA

Different Empathy Eyes Intimacy Relationship Sex Togetherness 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
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
I have a confidence about my life that comes from standing tall on my own two feet.
JANE FONDA

Confidence Life Myself Stand
To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.
JANE FONDA

Human Power Revolution Yourself
Physical fitness is a three-legged stool: strength, aerobic capacity, and flexibility.
JANE FONDA

Capacity Exercise Flexibility Strength
If you understood what communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees that we would some day become communist. I, a socialist, think that we should strive toward a socialist society, all the way to communism.
JANE FONDA

Communalism Hope Myself Politics Prayer Socialist Understand
Revolution is an act of love; we are the children of revolution, born to be rebels. It runs in our blood.
JANE FONDA

Act Blood Born Children Love Ourselves Revolution
Relationships are the oxygen of the psyche.
JANE FONDA

Oxygen Relationship
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
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
Think about it: Reducing crime and poverty and ensuring that we have an educated, stable work force has a direct effect on you and me and the future of our country.
JANE FONDA

Country Endurance Force Future Ourselves Poverty Thinking
We’ve got to establish a socialistic economic structure that will limit private, profit-oriented businesses.
JANE FONDA

Business Economic Establishment Profit Structure
My life is a stairway to heaven, not a ‘decline into decrepitude.
JANE FONDA

Decline Heaven Life Yourself
If you can intervene early in the lives of girls here and in other parts of the world, you can begin to change the prospects for the future.
JANE FONDA

Beginning Early Live Prospect World Yourself
The bravest soldiers aren’t unafraid, but they’re the ones who are able to harness their fear on behalf of courage.
JANE FONDA

Afraid Brave Courage Oneself Soldier
Stay curious, keep learning and keep growing. And always strive to be more interested than interesting.
JANE FONDA

Curious Interesting Learn Stay
The people who did you wrong or who didn’t quite know how to show up, you forgive them. And forgiving them allows you to forgive yourself too.
JANE FONDA

Forgiveness People Quite Wrong Yourself
All my life I had believed that unless I was perfect I would not be loved.
JANE FONDA

Believe Life Love Perfection 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
You’re more powerful when talking from your soul.
JANE FONDA

Powerful Soul Talk Yourself
I’m a very brave person. I can go to North Vietnam, I can challenge my government, but I can’t challenge the man I’m with if means I’m going to end up alone.
JANE FONDA

Alone Brave Challenge End Myself Person
No distractions. Center yourself. This is your time.
JANE FONDA

Distraction Time Yourself
Perfection is a toxic desire. We are not supposed to be perfect. The challenge is not to be perfect, it’s to be whole.
JANE FONDA

Challenge Desire Perfection Whole
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.
JANE FONDA

Addiction Age Bully Damage Hard Mental Myself Old
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

I 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.

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I 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.

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