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.
JANE FONDAI’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?
More Jane Fonda Quotes
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Someone once said that under the bell jar of compliance, the only thing that blooms is rage.
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We’re not meant to be perfect. It took me a long time to learn that.
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I finally got it: empower girls and everything changes.
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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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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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Refuse to be afraid that we will no longer be considered attractive and acceptable when we are strong.
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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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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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My greatest asset is that I am constantly changing.
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The more you treat yourself positively, the less you’ll want or need to be negative.
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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 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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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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Working in Hollywood does give one a certain expertise in the field of prostitution.
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The most incredible beauty and the most satisfying way of life come from affirming your own uniqueness.
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I never was a hippie! I went to India because so many friends like Mia Farrow and The Beatles were going there to discover truth. And so I went and trekked through India by myself, but instead of discovering truth, I wanted to join the Peace Corps.
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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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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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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.
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Physical fitness is a three-legged stool: strength, aerobic capacity, and flexibility.
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In this country, the only way a minority can get anything done is to make a little noise.
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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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When I’m in Canada, I feel this is what the world should be like.
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One part of wisdom is knowing what you don’t need anymore and letting it go.
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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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