Jane Fonda Quotes
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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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Our young people are assets to be cultivated and nurtured; let's begin treating them that way.
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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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It's hard for women at my age in Hollywood, but I'm not discouraged.
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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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In this country the only way a minority can get anything done is to make a little noise.
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One part of wisdom is knowing what you don't need anymore and letting it go.
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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'm an assistant storyteller. It's like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I'm waiting on six million people a week, if I'm lucky.
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I love mistakes because it's the only way you learn.
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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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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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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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I have people in my life who will say, 'Honey, you're trying too hard.' I like being saucy, but I'm 73 and a half. I'm still trying to find my way between matronly and coltishness.
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If adolescent pregnancy prevention is to become a priority, then our strategy, as advocates, must contain two key elements: civic engagement and education.
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I was always a courageous woman, capable of confronting governments but not men.
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My love life is wonderful.
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The institution of marriage is obsolete
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When I was at the age when you were supposed to be glamorous if you were a movie star, I wasn't.
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We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude.
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My mother killed herself when I was 12. I won't complete that relationship. But I can try to understand her.
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When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed.
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I see many more men who are feminist, or at least who have learned about life in the context of feminism.