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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 like to think both – it’s not either/or. It’s and.
JANE FONDA

Myself Thinking
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’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
It’s better to be interested than interesting.
JANE FONDA

Better Choice Interest Value
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.
JANE FONDA

Discover Friendship Identity Myself Personality Truth
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.
JANE FONDA

Intimate Issues Learning Ourselves Relationship Start Thinking
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
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
The secret of losing weight is patience.
JANE FONDA

Lose Patience Secret Weight
Women are rising. And I think that’s all the violence and war – it could be the last gasp of the patriarchy, actually.
JANE FONDA

Myself Patriarchy Rise Thinking Violence War Woman
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
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
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
You’re more powerful when talking from your soul.
JANE FONDA

Powerful Soul Talk Yourself
I feel like when I was an adolescent, and felt so unworthy of love and so empty, I moved outside of myself.
JANE FONDA

Feeling Love Move Myself
When you know in your heart why you did something, and you feel and you know that in spite of all the controversy that it was right, doesn’t matter.
JANE FONDA

Controversy Feeling Heart Yourself

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