The institution of marriage is obsolete.
JANE FONDAYou 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.
More Jane Fonda Quotes
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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.
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If our work is stimulating and rewarding, if it pushes us to grow…we become more valuable human beings.
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Eat only when you are hungry-not because it is one o’clock or seven o’clock or whatever.
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Perfection is a toxic desire. We are not supposed to be perfect. The challenge is not to be perfect, it’s to be whole.
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You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don’t find easy, or learn an awful lot very fast, which is what I tried to do.
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Look what scares you in the face and try to understand it. Empathy is revolutionary.
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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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Christ 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.
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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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When I’m in Canada, I feel this is what the world should be like.
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Getting fit is a political act – you are taking charge of your life.
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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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To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.
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It’s better to be interested than interesting.
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The secret of losing weight is patience.
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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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Go for the burn! Sweat!
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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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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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The glow and energy of the healthy woman is the ultimate beauty, the only beauty that will last.
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Instead 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.
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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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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.
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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 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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One part of wisdom is knowing what you don’t need anymore and letting it go.
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