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 FONDAWe are not meant to be perfect; we are meant to be whole.
More Jane Fonda Quotes
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It is never too late to master your weaknesses.
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I like to think both – it’s not either/or. It’s and.
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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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Refuse to be afraid that we will no longer be considered attractive and acceptable when we are strong.
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We’re not meant to be perfect. It took me a long time to learn that.
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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.
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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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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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It’s never too late – never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.
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I never was a hippie! I went to India because so many friends like Mia Farrow and The Beatles were going there to discover truth. And so I went and trekked through India by myself, but instead of discovering truth, I wanted to join the Peace Corps.
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Look what scares you in the face and try to understand it. Empathy is revolutionary.
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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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Women are rising. And I think that’s all the violence and war – it could be the last gasp of the patriarchy, actually.
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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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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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