Jane Fonda Quotes - Page 5

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

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.

The capacity of young people to persevere, even under the most adverse conditions, never ceases to amaze me.

The bravest soldiers aren't unafraid, but they're the ones who are able to harness their fear on behalf of courage.

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.

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?

I vowed I wouldn't get married until someone gave me one good reason to. No one ever did - but I got married anyway.

You can do yoga and be thinking about going shopping. The goal is kind of like meditation, is to be totally present in your body in the moment. That's when the most profound effects of yoga can happen. That's what I urge people to try to do. It's very important to be in your body.

A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.

A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring.

Everyone should know that feeling of overcoming fear and mastering something. People who aren't taught that become soggy.

We understand that Nixon's aggression against Vietnam is a racist aggression, that the American war in Vietnam is a racist war, a white man's war...We deplore that you are being used as cannon fodder for U.S. imperialism. We've seen photographs of American bombs and antipersonnel weapons being dropped, wantonly, accidentally perhaps, on your heads, on the heads of your comrades.

My mother killed herself when I was 12. I won't complete that relationship. But I can try to understand her.

Most of us want to be strong, but we are not.

So much conspires to silence us - because our truths are inherently subversive.

Shortly after I turned 50, both Ted Turner and the AARP came into my life. The only difference? With AARP, there were benefits.

I am convinced that we become what we do.

When a child enters the world through you, it alters everything on a psychic, psychological and purely practical level.

If you can intervene early in the lives of girls here and in other parts of the world, you can begin to change the prospects for the future.

Address things now that could otherwise turn into regrets.

Being by myself, that is to say, without a man - it's been a long time - is allowing me to know what it feels like - to live in my own skin, to remember what I miss and don't miss about a relationship.

When I was at the age when you were supposed to be glamorous if you were a movie star, I wasn't.

We are living on average today 34 years longer than our great-grandparents did.

I like to be wild in passion and calculated in expression! I'm both. I like to be wild in passion more. But I think the balance is what's essential.

I found that you're more powerful when talking from your soul.