Jane Fonda Quotes
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Think about it: Reducing crime and poverty and ensuring that we have an educated, stable work force has a direct effect on you and me and the future of our country.
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I remember saying goodbye to my father the night he left to join the Navy. He didn't have to. He was older than other servicemen and had a family to support but he wanted to be a part of the fight against fascism, not just make movies about it. I admired this about him.
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A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring.
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But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.
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In the hyper-sensitized reality of the region in which any criticism of Israel is swiftly and often unfairly branded as anti-Semitic, it can become counterproductive to inflame rather than explain and this means to hear the narratives of both sides, to articulate the suffering on both sides, not just the Palestinians.
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Telling lies and showing off to get attention are mistakes I made that I don't want my kids to make.
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I grew up with a deep belief that wherever our troops fought, they were on the side of the angels.
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I am blessed beyond reason with women friends.
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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.
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Emotionality is really easy for me. My father always said that Fondas can cry at a good steak.
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What we view in the media - and who presents it to us - does so much to determine how we think, how we feel about ourselves, and how we view the world.
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The most important thing to do as you age is to stay physically active. Lots of people just throw in the towel if they can't do what they used to do, and that's terrible.
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I don't want to make a cheap analysis, but when you have, like I did, a father incapable of showing emotion, who spends his life telling you that no one will love you if you aren't perfect, it leaves scars.
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The people who did you wrong or who didn't quite know how to show up, you forgive them. And forgiving them allows you to forgive yourself too.
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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.
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I never was a hippie! I went to India because so many friends like Mia Farrow and the Beatles were going there to discover truth. And so I went and trekked through India by myself, but instead of discovering truth, I wanted to join the Peace Corps.
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Being Henry Fonda's daughter got me started. But it didn't keep me working.
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Real love and intimacy can be much more possible when you're older.
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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.
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A mother who is obsessing about being thin and dieting and exercising is not going to be a very good mother.
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I took every chance I could to meet with U.S. soldiers. I talked with them and read the books they gave me about the war. I decided I needed to return to my country and join with them - active duty soldiers and Vietnam Veterans in particular - to try and end the war.
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I feel like when I was an adolescent, and felt so unworthy of love and so empty, I moved outside of myself.
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I was raised in the '50s. I was taught by my father that how I looked was all that mattered, frankly.
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Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles.