If our work is stimulating and rewarding, if it pushes us to grow…we become more valuable human beings.
JANE FONDAYou can run the office without a boss, but you can’t run an office without secretaries.
More Jane Fonda Quotes
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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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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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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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Winning 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.
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You shouldn’t give up. For a while, you have to stay close to the wall and be careful who you spend time with and take care of yourself.
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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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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 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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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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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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The institution of marriage is obsolete.
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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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The secret of losing weight is patience.
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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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Eat only when you are hungry-not because it is one o’clock or seven o’clock or whatever.
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Working in Hollywood does give one a certain expertise in the field of prostitution.
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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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If you allow yourself, you can become stronger in the very places that you’ve been broken.
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The more you treat yourself positively, the less you’ll want or need to be negative.
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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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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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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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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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When I’m in Canada, I feel this is what the world should be like.
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