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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.

Jane Fonda

I’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 FONDA

Alone Brave Challenge End Myself Person
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.
JANE FONDA

Be Yourself Lost Man Marriage
I think what’s happening in the world – there’s nothing more dangerous than a wounded beast, and the patriarchy is wounded.
JANE FONDA

Dangerous Myself Patriarchy Thinking World Wound
Whatever kind of workout you settle on, it should include the Big Three of exercise for health and fitness-aerobics, resistance exercises, and stretching.
JANE FONDA

Exercise Kind Resistance Stretching Yourself
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.
JANE FONDA

Childhood Complete Goodness Myself Perfection Review Time
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
I like to think both – it’s not either/or. It’s and.
JANE FONDA

Myself Thinking
No distractions. Center yourself. This is your time.
JANE FONDA

Distraction Time Yourself
Physical fitness is a three-legged stool: strength, aerobic capacity, and flexibility.
JANE FONDA

Capacity Exercise Flexibility Strength
Think about it: Reducing crime and poverty and ensuring that we have an educated, stable work force has a direct effect on you and me and the future of our country.
JANE FONDA

Country Endurance Force Future Ourselves Poverty Thinking
Look what scares you in the face and try to understand it. Empathy is revolutionary.
JANE FONDA

Empathy Face Revolution Scare Understand
We’re not meant to be perfect. It took me a long time to learn that.
JANE FONDA

Learning Perfection Time
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
If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.
JANE FONDA

Career Expectation Reflection Yourself
Relationships are the oxygen of the psyche.
JANE FONDA

Oxygen Relationship
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

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