Jane Fonda Quotes
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I knew that I had to write my memoirs.
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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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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 think feminism is about the spirit.
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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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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 was so devastated by my second divorce that I had a nervous breakdown.
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A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.
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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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I have a confidence about my life that comes from standing tall on my own two feet.
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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 love films that make you feel good when you come out and, in my opinion, there's not enough of them these days.
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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 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 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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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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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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We're not meant to be perfect. It took me a long time to learn that.
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I was always a courageous woman, capable of confronting governments but not men.
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I always had a penchant for falling in love. Every time I found myself without a mate, I fell into a state of low-sizzling panic.
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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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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.
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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 was raised in the '50s. I was taught by my father that how I looked was all that mattered, frankly.