Jane Fonda Quotes
-
I was always a courageous woman, capable of confronting governments but not men.
-
If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.
-
I love films that make you feel good when you come out and, in my opinion, there's not enough of them these days.
-
One part of wisdom is knowing what you don't need anymore and letting it go.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I love mistakes because it's the only way you learn.
-
It's never too late - never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.
-
My love life is wonderful.
-
I feel like my honesty gives people the freedom to talk about things they wouldn't otherwise.
-
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.
-
The capacity of young people to persevere, even under the most adverse conditions, never ceases to amaze me.
-
When I was at the age when you were supposed to be glamorous if you were a movie star, I wasn't.
-
The institution of marriage is obsolete
-
The trick is to be Zen about it. Winning is sometimes not the prize
-
I've been accused of being too flexible, too willing to mold myself to men, and that's something I'm constantly working on.
-
When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed.
-
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.
-
Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles.
-
I think the Internet and technology in general has changed everything. We can see it overseas even more with the Arab Spring and so forth.
-
If adolescent pregnancy prevention is to become a priority, then our strategy, as advocates, must contain two key elements: civic engagement and education.
-
The '60s may be idealized in the movie from a cultural point of view, but the decade was all about discord and a big generational split that was very painful.
-
My mother killed herself when I was 12. I won't complete that relationship. But I can try to understand her.