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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

Relationships are the oxygen of the psyche.
JANE FONDA

Oxygen Relationship
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
We don’t need to be perfect. We’re not supposed to be perfect; we’re supposed to be complete. And you can’t be complete if you’re trying to be perfect.
JANE FONDA

Need Perfection Yourself
We are not meant to be perfect; we are meant to be whole.
JANE FONDA

Perfection Whole
I don’t know if a country (America) where the people are so ignorant of reality and of history, if you can call that a free world.
JANE FONDA

Country Freedom History Known World Yourself
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
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
If our work is stimulating and rewarding, if it pushes us to grow…we become more valuable human beings.
JANE FONDA

Growth Human Ourselves Stimulation Value Work
Winning means some kind of approval of the Establishment which means people will more readily accept me, may be less frightened of me and other people who speak out.
JANE FONDA

Acceptance Approval Kind Myself Talk Winning
I’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?
JANE FONDA

Drink Movie Myself Smoke Thinking
I have a confidence about my life that comes from standing tall on my own two feet.
JANE FONDA

Confidence Life Myself Stand
It’s better to be interested than interesting.
JANE FONDA

Better Choice Interest Value
The most incredible beauty and the most satisfying way of life come from affirming your own uniqueness.
JANE FONDA

Affirmation Beautiful Satisfaction Unique Yourself
Working in Hollywood does give one a certain expertise in the field of prostitution.
JANE FONDA

Field Oneself Prostitution
My life is a stairway to heaven, not a ‘decline into decrepitude.
JANE FONDA

Decline Heaven Life Yourself
Physical fitness is a three-legged stool: strength, aerobic capacity, and flexibility.
JANE FONDA

Capacity Exercise Flexibility Strength
I was shocked into the realization that I myself had played an unwitting role as a movie star and sex symbol in perpetrating the stereotypes that affected women all over the world.
JANE FONDA

Movie Realize Sex Shock Star Symbol Woman World
The people who did you wrong or who didn’t quite know how to show up, you forgive them. And forgiving them allows you to forgive yourself too.
JANE FONDA

Forgiveness People Quite Wrong Yourself
Revolution is an act of love; we are the children of revolution, born to be rebels. It runs in our blood.
JANE FONDA

Act Blood Born Children Love Ourselves Revolution
You can run the office without a boss, but you can’t run an office without secretaries.
JANE FONDA

Office Run Secretary Yourself
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
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
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.
JANE FONDA

Addiction Age Bully Damage Hard Mental Myself Old
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
You’re more powerful when talking from your soul.
JANE FONDA

Powerful Soul Talk Yourself
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

Challenge Desire Perfection Whole
The glow and energy of the healthy woman is the ultimate beauty, the only beauty that will last.
JANE FONDA

Beautiful Energy Glow Healthy Woman

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