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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Through the centuries, over 1.2 million brave men and women have given their lives for our nation.
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Studies have shown that since women have had access to the pill and family planning measures, they have made huge gains in both wages and in careers that were dominated by men.
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That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
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I'm obsessed with fuzz pedals.
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Everybody is interesting when they are interested in something.
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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.
