Jane Fonda Quotes

If you understood what communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees that we would some day become communist. . . . I, a socialist, think that we should strive toward a socialist society, all the way to communism.

Stay curious, keep learning and keep growing. And always strive to be more interested than interesting.

It's never too late - never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.

We are not meant to be perfect; we are meant to be whole

You don’t learn from successes; you don’t learn from awards; you don’t learn from celebrity; you only learn from wounds and scars and mistakes and failures. And that’s the truth.

To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.

My greatest asset is that I am constantly changing.

The most incredible beauty and the most satisfying way of life come from affirming your own uniqueness.

You're more powerful when talking from your soul.

What I learned is, we have to listen to each other, even when we don't agree, even when we think we hate each other. We have to listen to each others narratives. Not interrupt defensively, or with hostility, but really try to open our hearts and listen with empathy. I learned so much from that meeting. It was a very difficult thing to do and it was one of the best things that I ever did in my life. Look what scares you in the face, and try to understand it. Empathy, I have learned, is revolutionary.

Aging is a staircase - the upward ascension of the human spirit, bringing us into wisdom, wholeness and authenticity. As you may know, the entire world operates on a universal law: entropy, the second law of thermodynamics. Entropy means that everything in the world, everything, is in a state of decline and decay, the arch. There's only one exception to this universal law, and that is the human spirit, which can continue to evolve upwards.

Perfection is a toxic desire. We are not supposed to be perfect. The challenge is not to be perfect, it's to be whole.

Look what scares you in the face and try to understand it. Empathy is revolutionary.

I finally got it: empower girls and everything changes.

The more you treat yourself positively, the less you'll want or need to be negative.

Revolution is an act of love; we are the children of revolution, born to be rebels. It runs in our blood.

One part of wisdom is knowing what you don't need anymore and letting it go.

Ultimately we must concern ourselves with pulling out by its roots the decadence that controls our culture, the profit motive that controls our culture.

I spent a good deal of time going back over my childhood, my midlife, to try to understand who I was. We're supposed to be complete and whole, and you can't be whole if you're trying to be perfect. Doing a life review helped me get over the disease to please.

The glow and energy of the healthy woman is the ultimate beauty, the only beauty that will last.

It's better to be interested than interesting.

Don't give up. There are lessons to be learned even in the most horrendous pain. And you don't know that when you're young.

It is never too late to master your weaknesses.

Eat only when you are hungry-not because it is one o'clock or seven o'clock or whatever.

I think what's happening in the world - there's nothing more dangerous than a wounded beast, and the patriarchy is wounded.