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 FONDAI’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.
More Jane Fonda Quotes
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You 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.
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You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.
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We’ve got to establish a socialistic economic structure that will limit private, profit-oriented businesses.
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I have a confidence about my life that comes from standing tall on my own two feet.
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Enjoyable does not necessarily mean easy.
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Look what scares you in the face and try to understand it. Empathy is revolutionary.
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Good physical condition is protection. Our strength comes from our body.
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Ultimately we must concern ourselves with pulling out by its roots the decadence that controls our culture, the profit motive that controls our culture.
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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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My life is a stairway to heaven, not a ‘decline into decrepitude.
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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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But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.
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All my life I had believed that unless I was perfect I would not be loved.
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Go for the burn! Sweat!
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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.
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