It’s better to be interested than interesting.
JANE FONDARelationships are the oxygen of the psyche.
More Jane Fonda Quotes
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An exercise outfit helps because it sets this time apart from the rest of your day and makes it matter more.
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The secret of losing weight is patience.
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All my life I had believed that unless I was perfect I would not be loved.
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One part of wisdom is knowing what you don’t need anymore and letting it go.
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The glow and energy of the healthy woman is the ultimate beauty, the only beauty that will last.
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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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Look what scares you in the face and try to understand it. Empathy is revolutionary.
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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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When you know in your heart why you did something, and you feel and you know that in spite of all the controversy that it was right, doesn’t matter.
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Relationships are the oxygen of the psyche.
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We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.
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My greatest asset is that I am constantly changing.
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I confess. If the law had been appiled to me properly for what I did in Vietnam, I’d have been convicted for high treason.
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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’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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The bravest soldiers aren’t unafraid, but they’re the ones who are able to harness their fear on behalf of courage.
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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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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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Getting fit is a political act – you are taking charge of your life.
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Go for the burn! Sweat!
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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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But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.
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The more you treat yourself positively, the less you’ll want or need to be negative.
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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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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.
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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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