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.
JANE FONDAWe are not meant to be perfect; we are meant to be whole.
More Jane Fonda Quotes
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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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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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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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The secret of losing weight is patience.
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It’s better to be interested than interesting.
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I’m an assistant storyteller. It’s like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I’m waiting on six million people a week, if I’m lucky.
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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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In this country, the only way a minority can get anything done is to make a little noise.
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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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Eat only when you are hungry-not because it is one o’clock or seven o’clock or whatever.
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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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We’ve got to establish a socialistic economic structure that will limit private, profit-oriented businesses.
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Stay curious, keep learning and keep growing. And always strive to be more interested than interesting.
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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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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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Getting fit is a political act – you are taking charge of your life.
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We are not meant to be perfect; we are meant to be whole.
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Physical fitness is a three-legged stool: strength, aerobic capacity, and flexibility.
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Whatever kind of workout you settle on, it should include the Big Three of exercise for health and fitness-aerobics, resistance exercises, and stretching.
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I finally got it: empower girls and everything changes.
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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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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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All my life I had believed that unless I was perfect I would not be loved.
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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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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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