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When you can’t remember why you’re hurt, that’s when you’re healed. When you have to work real hard to re-create the pain, and you can’t quite get there, that’s when you’re better.

Jane Fonda

Relationships are the oxygen of the psyche.
JANE FONDA

Oxygen Relationship
Enjoyable does not necessarily mean easy.
JANE FONDA

Easy Enjoyment Necessary
You can run the office without a boss, but you can’t run an office without secretaries.
JANE FONDA

Office Run Secretary Yourself
Christ was the first feminist and because of that I’ve learned from his teaching to call myself a Christian feminist, adding that her faith is not a matter of traditions and dogmas but, rather, a spiritual experience.
JANE FONDA

Call Experience Feminism Learning Myself Spiritual Tradition
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.
JANE FONDA

Age Born Live Yourself
Look what scares you in the face and try to understand it. Empathy is revolutionary.
JANE FONDA

Empathy Face Revolution Scare Understand
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.
JANE FONDA

Communalism Hope Myself Politics Prayer Socialist Understand
My life is a stairway to heaven, not a ‘decline into decrepitude.
JANE FONDA

Decline Heaven Life Yourself
I think the Internet and technology in general has changed everything. We can see it overseas even more with the Arab Spring and so forth.
JANE FONDA

Change Internet Myself Thinking
The bravest soldiers aren’t unafraid, but they’re the ones who are able to harness their fear on behalf of courage.
JANE FONDA

Afraid Brave Courage Oneself Soldier
I am not a do-gooder. I am a revolutionary. A revolutionary woman.
JANE FONDA

Confidence Inspirational Revolutionary Woman Woman Empowerment
The most incredible beauty and the most satisfying way of life come from affirming your own uniqueness.
JANE FONDA

Affirmation Beautiful Satisfaction Unique Yourself
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 FONDA

Drink Movie Myself Smoke Thinking
Someone once said that under the bell jar of compliance, the only thing that blooms is rage.
JANE FONDA

Angry Bloom Rage
The glow and energy of the healthy woman is the ultimate beauty, the only beauty that will last.
JANE FONDA

Beautiful Energy Glow Healthy Woman
The challenge is not to be perfect. It’s to be whole.
JANE FONDA

Challenge Perfection Whole
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.
JANE FONDA

Give Up Knowledge Known Learning Lesson Young Yourself
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 FONDA

Allow Break Healing Thinking Yourself
Refuse to be afraid that we will no longer be considered attractive and acceptable when we are strong.
JANE FONDA

Acceptance Afraid Attraction Refusal Strong Yourself
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.
JANE FONDA

Assistance Myself People Wait
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.
JANE FONDA

Learning Mistake Scars Success Truth Wound Yourself
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.
JANE FONDA

Confession Myself Properly Treason
I don’t think there’s anything more important than making peace before it’s too late. And it almost always falls to the child to try to move toward the parent.
JANE FONDA

Children Fall Important Myself Parents Thinking
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.
JANE FONDA

Actor Carry Different Pay People
My greatest asset is that I am constantly changing.
JANE FONDA

Asset Change Greatness Myself
I have a confidence about my life that comes from standing tall on my own two feet.
JANE FONDA

Confidence Life Myself Stand
You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.
JANE FONDA

Asylum Life Mental People Yourself

When you can’t remember why you’re hurt, that’s when you’re healed. When you have to work real hard to re-create the pain, and you can’t quite get there, that’s when you’re better.

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When you can’t remember why you’re hurt, that’s when you’re healed. When you have to work real hard to re-create the pain, and you can’t quite get there, that’s when you’re better.

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