In my marriages, I’d lost parts of who I was because I was trying to mold myself into what I thought a man wanted me to be.
JANE FONDAWinning means some kind of approval of the Establishment which means people will more readily accept me, may be less frightened of me and other people who speak out.
More Jane Fonda Quotes
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I always had a penchant for falling in love. Every time I found myself without a mate, I fell into a state of low-sizzling panic.
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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 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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You’re more powerful when talking from your soul.
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I am not a do-gooder. I am a revolutionary. A revolutionary woman.
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Good physical condition is protection. Our strength comes from our body.
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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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It’s never too late – never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.
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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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Someone once said that under the bell jar of compliance, the only thing that blooms is rage.
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I like to think both – it’s not either/or. It’s and.
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You don’t learn from successes; you don’t learn from awards; you don’t learn from celebrity; you only learn from wounds and scars and mistakes and failures. And that’s the truth.
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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.
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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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Refuse to be afraid that we will no longer be considered attractive and acceptable when we are strong.
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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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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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You can run the office without a boss, but you can’t run an office without secretaries.
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My life is a stairway to heaven, not a ‘decline into decrepitude.
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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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The challenge is not to be perfect. It’s to be whole.
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Enjoyable does not necessarily mean easy.
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The most incredible beauty and the most satisfying way of life come from affirming your own uniqueness.
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All my life I had believed that unless I was perfect I would not be loved.
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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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The institution of marriage is obsolete.
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