Jane Fonda Quotes

You must decrease the amount of food you eat and increase the amount of exercise you get. That is all there is to it.

When you think you can't do any more repetitions, do two more.

Pay more attention to losing inches than losing pounds.

I am convinced that we become what we do.

I'm vain. My arms are thin, but I'm vain about loose flesh. And so I'm careful that what I wear will show off my best parts, which are my waist and my butt.

The absolute minimum for effective exercise is three times a week on alternate days for at least half an hour.

I've been accused of being too flexible, too willing to mold myself to men, and that's something I'm constantly working on.

People think actresses find public speaking easy, and it's not easy at all; we're used to hiding behind masks.

Declare a truce and accept food as a life-giving friend.

Find the balance between the calories you take in and the ones you burn up.

Emotionality is really easy for me. My father always said that Fondas can cry at a good steak.

Teach girls to read and to work at something where they can bring home money - and the entire balance of power shifts.

When I left the West Coast I was a liberal. When I landed in New York I was a revolutionary.

The reality is sobering: in the United States one in three girls will become pregnant before age 20, totaling more than 750,000 girls per year.

I don't think it's natural for two people to swear to be together for the rest of their lives.

So much conspires to silence us - because our truths are inherently subversive.

I was raised in the '50s. I was taught by my father that how I looked was all that mattered.

This toxic striving for perfection is a female thing. How many men obsess about being perfect? For men, generally, good enough is good enough.

My identity depended on men for so long. You can be successful and still have the feeling that if you're not with a man you don't exist.

We need women friends, women who challenge us.

I've worked really, really hard on myself to not be judgmental.

When I say women are the agents of change, I really should say women and girls.

Women are rising. It's going to get harder before it gets easier, but we can do it if we realize that we have the power. Women will always be the leaders of change.

Reproductive freedom is a real danger for the patriarchy, because it means that women are empowered.

I don't like the word 'calculated' because it sounds pejorative. Intentional. Intentional is better, I think. Wild in passion and intentional in expression.

You know, you're only as happy as your least happy child. So if your kids aren't okay, you're not good.

If adolescent pregnancy prevention is to become a priority, then our strategy, as advocates, must contain two key elements: civic engagement and education.

You're more powerful when talking from your soul.

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.

We've got to establish a socialistic economic structure that will limit private, profit-oriented businesses.

When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed. When you have to work real hard to re-create the pain, and you can't quite get there, that's when you're better.

The institution of marriage is obsolete.

I am not a do-gooder. I am a revolutionary. A revolutionary woman.

I confess. If the law had been appiled to me properly for what I did in Vietnam, I'd have been convicted for high treason.

Good physical condition is protection. Our strength comes from our body.

If our work is stimulating and rewarding, if it pushes us to grow...we become more valuable human beings.

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.

I like to think both - it's not either/or. It's and.

In this country, the only way a minority can get anything done is to make a little noise.

No distractions. Center yourself. This is your time.

My life is a stairway to heaven, not a 'decline into decrepitude.

The bravest soldiers aren't unafraid, but they're the ones who are able to harness their fear on behalf of courage.

I vowed I wouldn't get married until someone gave me one good reason to. No one ever did - but I got married anyway.

Address things now that could otherwise turn into regrets.

When I was at the age when you were supposed to be glamorous if you were a movie star, I wasn't.

I like to be wild in passion and calculated in expression! I'm both. I like to be wild in passion more. But I think the balance is what's essential.

When a child enters the world through you, it alters everything on a psychic, psychological and purely practical level.

Prostitutes are the inevitable product of a society that places ultimate importance on money, possessions, and competition.

So much is made of good, strong roles for women. Actually, it's really interesting playing vul­nerable people as well.

I left acting for 15 years, and I think it's really nice to have another life. I took too much for granted when I was younger.