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?
JANE FONDAIf the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.
More Jane Fonda Quotes
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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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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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The people who did you wrong or who didn’t quite know how to show up, you forgive them. And forgiving them allows you to forgive yourself too.
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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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The institution of marriage is obsolete.
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If our work is stimulating and rewarding, if it pushes us to grow…we become more valuable human beings.
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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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One part of wisdom is knowing what you don’t need anymore and letting it go.
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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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I feel like when I was an adolescent, and felt so unworthy of love and so empty, I moved outside of myself.
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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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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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The secret of losing weight is patience.
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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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