Jane Fonda Quotes
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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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You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don't find easy, or learn an awful lot very fast, which is what I tried to do.
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I vowed I wouldn't get married until someone gave me one good reason to. No one ever did - but I got married anyway.
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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.
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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.
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We're not meant to be perfect. It took me a long time to learn that.
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Female listeners are leaving traditional talk radio because of the rough-edged, shouting nature of it.
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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 would think that if you understood what sex education is, you would get down on your knees and worship a condom.
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Everyone should know that feeling of overcoming fear and mastering something. People who aren't taught that become soggy.
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Reproductive freedom is a real danger for the patriarchy, because it means that women are empowered.
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Women are rising. And I think that's all the violence and war - it could be the last gasp of the patriarchy, actually.
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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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To make the revolution in the United States is a slow day by day job that requires patience and discipline. It is the only way to make it. . . . All I know is that despite the fact that I am one of the people who benefit from a capitalist society, I find that any system which exploits other people cannot and should not exist.
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I grew up with a deep belief that wherever our troops fought, they were on the side of the angels.
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I knew that my newfound activism and feminism was going to improve my acting, because I was seeing things not just in very narrow, individual, kind of Freudian terms, but seeing them in a much broader, societal way that was going to deepen and enrich my talent.
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I am still baffled by those who feel that criticizing America is unpatriotic, a view increasingly being adopted in the United States since 9/11 as an excuse to render suspect what has always been an American right. An active, brave, outspoken (and heard) citizenry is essential to a healthy democracy.
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I remember saying goodbye to my father the night he left to join the Navy. He didn't have to. He was older than other servicemen and had a family to support but he wanted to be a part of the fight against fascism, not just make movies about it. I admired this about him.
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Physical fitness is a three-legged stool: strength, aerobic capacity, and flexibility.
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My life is a stairway to heaven, not a 'decline into decrepitude.
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I never would've imagined in the first part of my life that I could've stood up and said anything. The war in Vietnam changed me. I was so angry. Some of my speeches probably weren't well considered.
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Declare a truce and accept food as a life-giving friend.
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Eat only when you are hungry-not because it is one o'clock or seven o'clock or whatever.
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While not impossible, it is especially challenging for teenage parents to develop bonds with their children. A high percent of them were themselves children of teenage parents and have never experienced appropriate parenting.
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I don't want to die without knowing who I am.
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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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In this country, the only way a minority can get anything done is to make a little noise.
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When women have reclaimed their voices and men reclaimed their hearts, we won't be invading countries, we won't be feeling that we have the right to launch preemptive wars.
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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.
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Aging is a staircase - the upward ascension of the human spirit, bringing us into wisdom, wholeness and authenticity. As you may know, the entire world operates on a universal law: entropy, the second law of thermodynamics. Entropy means that everything in the world, everything, is in a state of decline and decay, the arch. There's only one exception to this universal law, and that is the human spirit, which can continue to evolve upwards.
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