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.

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

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

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.

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.

Relationships are the oxygen of the psyche.

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

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.

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

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

I finally got it: empower girls and everything changes.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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'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.

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.

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

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

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.

A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.

Everyone should know that feeling of overcoming fear and mastering something. People who aren't taught that become soggy.

A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring.

The challenge is not to be perfect. It’s to be whole.

Working in Hollywood does give one a certain expertise in the field of prostitution.

It's better to be interested than interesting.

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.

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

But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.

I was so devastated by my second divorce that I had a nervous breakdown.