Jane Fonda Quotes
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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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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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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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Being Henry Fonda's daughter got me started. But it didn't keep me working.
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We're not meant to be perfect. It took me a long time to learn that.
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The capacity of young people to persevere, even under the most adverse conditions, never ceases to amaze me.
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Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to people and what kind of an impact you have on the people around you and the community around you and the world, so that when you go out, you can feel you have made a positive difference.
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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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Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early parenthood. Their future children deserve the opportunity to grow up in financially and emotionally stable homes. Our communities benefit from healthy, productive, well-prepared young people.
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While not impossible, it is especially challenging for teenage parents to develop bonds with their children. A high percent of them were themselves children of teenage parents and have never experienced appropriate parenting.
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Ted needs someone to be there 100% of the time. He thinks that's love. It's not love - it's babysitting.
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I think feminism is about the spirit.
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I was so devastated by my second divorce that I had a nervous breakdown.
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How would you like to have a father who keeps getting younger looking every year? Do you realize what that can do to a woman?
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If you're ever in a situation where you're not getting served or you can't get what you need, just cry.
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I knew that I had to write my memoirs.
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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.
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I am able to talk about my life in a way that helps other women - and men, but mostly women - understand their own life. I feel real proud of that. And then the fact that my children are okay. You know, you're only as happy as your least happy child. So if your kids aren't okay, you're not good.
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I feel like my honesty gives people the freedom to talk about things they wouldn't otherwise.
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The trick is to be Zen about it. Winning is sometimes not the prize
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Children born to teens have less supportive and stimulating environments, poorer health, lower cognitive development, and worse educational outcomes. Children of teen mothers are at increased risk of being in foster care and becoming teen parents themselves, thereby repeating the cycle.
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I know how gratifying it is not only to work in film but to be acknowledged by peers; producing '9 to 5' was an opportunity that I valued precisely because it's so rarely in the hands of women.
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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
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It's an unfair position, so you can do one of two things: just shut up, which is something I don't find easy, or just learn an awful lot very fast, which is what I tried to do.