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 FONDAPerfection 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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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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I think what’s happening in the world – there’s nothing more dangerous than a wounded beast, and the patriarchy is wounded.
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Whatever kind of workout you settle on, it should include the Big Three of exercise for health and fitness-aerobics, resistance exercises, and stretching.
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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.
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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 like to think both – it’s not either/or. It’s and.
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No distractions. Center yourself. This is your time.
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Physical fitness is a three-legged stool: strength, aerobic capacity, and flexibility.
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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.
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Look what scares you in the face and try to understand it. Empathy is revolutionary.
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We’re not meant to be perfect. It took me a long time to learn that.
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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.
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If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.
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Relationships are the oxygen of the psyche.
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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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