Jane Fonda Quotes
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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 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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Being Henry Fonda's daughter got me started. But it didn't keep me working.
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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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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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I am saddened that I have been linked with her politically... I have disagreed with her on every issue, from the bottom of my toes
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I was so devastated by my second divorce that I had a nervous breakdown.
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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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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 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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I would have given up acting in a minute. I didn't like how it set me apart from other people.
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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 was raised in the '50s. I was taught by my father that how I looked was all that mattered, frankly.
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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 vowed I wouldn't get married until someone gave me one good reason to. No one ever did - but I got married anyway
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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.
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In this country the only way a minority can get anything done is to make a little noise.
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I have a confidence about my life that comes from standing tall on my own two feet.
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This has gone on far too long, this spreading of lies about me! None of it is true. NONE OF IT! I love my country. I have never done anything to hurt my country or the men and women who have fought and continue to fight for us. I do not understand what the far right stands to gain by continuing with these myths.
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A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.
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One part of wisdom is knowing what you don't need anymore and letting it go.
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Our young people are assets to be cultivated and nurtured; let's begin treating them that way.
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If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.
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I don't think there's anything more important than making peace before it's too late. And it almost always falls to the child to try to move toward the parent.