Jane Fonda Quotes

Ted needs someone to be there 100% of the time. He thinks that's love. It's not love - it's babysitting.

It's never too late - never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.

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.

Stay curious, keep learning and keep growing. And always strive to be more interested than interesting.

To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.

If we as a nation are to break the cycle of poverty, crime and the growing underclass of young people ill equipped to be productive citizens, we need to not only implement effective programs to prevent teen pregnancy, but we must also help those who have already given birth so that they become effective, nurturing, bonding parents.

Telling lies and showing off to get attention are mistakes I made that I don't want my kids to make.

What I learned is, we have to listen to each other, even when we don't agree, even when we think we hate each other. We have to listen to each others narratives. Not interrupt defensively, or with hostility, but really try to open our hearts and listen with empathy. I learned so much from that meeting. It was a very difficult thing to do and it was one of the best things that I ever did in my life. Look what scares you in the face, and try to understand it. Empathy, I have learned, is revolutionary.

I have a confidence about my life that comes from standing tall on my own two feet.

We are not meant to be perfect; we are meant to be whole

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.

The more you treat yourself positively, the less you'll want or need to be negative.

The glow and energy of the healthy woman is the ultimate beauty, the only beauty that will last.

Look what scares you in the face and try to understand it. Empathy is revolutionary.

The most incredible beauty and the most satisfying way of life come from affirming your own uniqueness.

When I'm in Canada, I feel this is what the world should be like.

Whatever kind of workout you settle on, it should include the Big Three of exercise for health and fitness-aerobics, resistance exercises, and stretching.

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.

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

Relationships are the oxygen of the psyche.

One part of wisdom is knowing what you don't need anymore and letting it go.

It's about time we make the well-being of our young people more important than ideology and politics. As a country, we benefit from investing in their future by investing in teen pregnancy prevention.

I finally got it: empower girls and everything changes.

Getting fit is a political act - you are taking charge of your life.

Physical fitness is a three-legged stool: strength, aerobic capacity, and flexibility.

I would like to say something, not just to Vietnam veterans in New England, but to men who were in Vietnam, who I hurt, or whose pain I caused to deepen because of the things that I said or did. I was trying to help end the killing and the war, but there were times when I was thoughtless and careless about it and I'm...very sorry that I hurt them. And I want to apologize to them and their families.

If you allow yourself, you can become stronger in the very places that you've been broken.

Revolution is an act of love; we are the children of revolution, born to be rebels. It runs in our blood.

You can run the office without a boss, but you can't run an office without secretaries.

Go for the burn! Sweat!

Parents are supposed to give the child back to herself with love. If they've got duct tape over their eyes because of narcissism, it doesn't happen.

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

Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to people and what kind of an impact you have on the people around you and the community around you and the world, so that when you go out, you can feel you have made a positive difference.

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.

We're not meant to be perfect. It took me a long time to learn that.

Refuse to be afraid that we will no longer be considered attractive and acceptable when we are strong.

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.

You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.

A lot of things affect women differently than men, and women get left out.

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.

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.

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.

You think you're being broken but you're really being broken open...and that's where the healing happens, in those broken places...if you'll allow it.

We've got to establish a Socialist economic structure that will limit private profit-oriented businesses. Whether the transition is peaceful depends on the way our present governmental leaders react. We must commit our lives to this transition ...... We should be very proud of our new breed of soldier. It's not organized but it's mutiny, and they have every right.

I think what's happening in the world - there's nothing more dangerous than a wounded beast, and the patriarchy is wounded.

Someone once said that under the bell jar of compliance, the only thing that blooms is rage.

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.

I think the Internet and technology in general has changed everything. We can see it overseas even more with the Arab Spring and so forth.

Every woman should eat for the long run so she can manage the short stops of crisis.

A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.