Jane Fonda Quotes
I've been accused of being too flexible, too willing to mold myself to men, and that's something I'm constantly working on.
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The beauty of 'The Hunger Games' and also 'Game of Thrones,' in fairness, both projects have really complex, three-dimensional, contradictory, strong women... The writing of female characters is extraordinary and equal to the men.
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The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.
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You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.
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I no longer run barefoot.
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In the X-Men the women are so strong and sexy! We really kick some male butt!
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But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.
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I'm attracted to men who just love what they do, have confidence in what they do and have potential to be on their own if they need to be.
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It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.
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I don't believe in categorising a gender, as it makes for discord. People always say, 'That's what men are like' or, 'That's what women do'; I don't really feel that at all. I think that's because I have two fathers, three brothers, a husband and two sons. I'm surrounded by maleness, and I couldn't possibly summarise them into a type.
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I think it's very important for both women and men to see women working in a variety of capacities.
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We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.
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Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
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Women artists are still treated differently from men.
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When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.
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He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
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And if I would have taken lessons I probably wouldn't have done it, and what forced me to do all this weird stuff on the guitar was I couldn't afford effects pedals, I didn't have all this stuff when I was a kid so I just tried to squeeze all the weird noises I could out of the guitar, which brings me to building guitars.
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You think aerobics is not a cool sport? I think you are wrong. It requires amazing discipline - flexibility, fitness, knowledge. And you have to do it with a big smile on your face. Also, I once performed in front of 10,000 screaming women. I tell you something, I'd rather do that than kick a ball around in front of a few men.
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If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?
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We're all grown men, and we all have our ways of handling our problems. I'm not secretive, but I don't really talk about things.
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It is difficulties that show what men are.
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O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time.
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What we can be scientifically certain of is that our continued use of fossil fuels is pushing us to a point of no return
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America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.
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I've been accused of being too flexible, too willing to mold myself to men, and that's something I'm constantly working on.
