The challenge is not to be perfect. It’s to be whole.
JANE FONDAThe challenge is not to be perfect. It’s to be whole.
JANE FONDAI’m a very brave person. I can go to North Vietnam, I can challenge my government, but I can’t challenge the man I’m with if means I’m going to end up alone.
JANE FONDAYou’re more powerful when talking from your soul.
JANE FONDAI 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.
JANE FONDAI feel like when I was an adolescent, and felt so unworthy of love and so empty, I moved outside of myself.
JANE FONDAThe more you treat yourself positively, the less you’ll want or need to be negative.
JANE FONDAI think what’s happening in the world – there’s nothing more dangerous than a wounded beast, and the patriarchy is wounded.
JANE FONDATo be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.
JANE FONDAYou spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.
JANE FONDAMy life is a stairway to heaven, not a ‘decline into decrepitude.
JANE FONDAI have a confidence about my life that comes from standing tall on my own two feet.
JANE FONDARevolution is an act of love; we are the children of revolution, born to be rebels. It runs in our blood.
JANE FONDAOne part of wisdom is knowing what you don’t need anymore and letting it go.
JANE FONDAWomen are rising. And I think that’s all the violence and war – it could be the last gasp of the patriarchy, actually.
JANE FONDASomeone once said that under the bell jar of compliance, the only thing that blooms is rage.
JANE FONDAEat only when you are hungry-not because it is one o’clock or seven o’clock or whatever.
JANE FONDA