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.
JANE FONDARelationships are the oxygen of the psyche.
More Jane Fonda Quotes
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When I’m in Canada, I feel this is what the world should be like.
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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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I think what’s happening in the world – there’s nothing more dangerous than a wounded beast, and the patriarchy is wounded.
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We all, in fact, carry so many people inside us; the only difference is that actors get paid for it, and we sort of spruce it up a bit.
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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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It is never too late to master your weaknesses.
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Working in Hollywood does give one a certain expertise in the field of prostitution.
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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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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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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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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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My life is a stairway to heaven, not a ‘decline into decrepitude.
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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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But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.
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The secret of losing weight is patience.
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