Jane Fonda Quotes - Page 6

So much is made of good, strong roles for women. Actually, it's really interesting playing vul­nerable people as well.

Well, what is a relationship? It's about two people having tremendous weaknesses and vulnerabilities, like we all do, and one person being able to strengthen the other in their areas of vulnerability, and vice versa. You need each other. You complete each other, passion and romance aside.

Prostitutes are the inevitable product of a society that places ultimate importance on money, possessions, and competition.

I left acting for 15 years, and I think it's really nice to have another life. I took too much for granted when I was younger.

I never would've imagined in the first part of my life that I could've stood up and said anything. The war in Vietnam changed me. I was so angry. Some of my speeches probably weren't well considered.

Movies are collective, cooperative endeavours, which I like a lot. But writing is all up to you, it's what's so scary; it's just you and that page. But I really like it a lot.

To do life right, you have to feel like you're growing up until the day you die. The thing I'm proudest of is that I have stayed curious. I have every intention, when I'm on my deathbed, of saying, "Oh, my God - I get it!"

When food becomes the enemy, every time we lose the fight we not only gain weight, but lose our self-esteem as well.

I wasn't a hippie and I wasn't even a bohemian. I was extremely earnest and serious.

I don't want my wrinkles taken away - I don't want to look like everyone else.

I wasn't pretty enough to be the pretty girl and I wasn't unattract­ive enough to be the dorky girl.

I would think that if you understood what sex education is, you would get down on your knees and worship a condom.

You may be old, you may be in your third act, but you can still be vital and sexual and funny. Life isn't over.

Your goal should be to take your body and make it as healthy, strong, flexible and well-proportioned as you can.

Men fear that becoming 'we' will erase his 'I.' For women, our 'we' is our saving grace Women's relationships are like a renewable source of power.

Every woman should eat for the long run so she can manage the short stops of crisis.

I feel like my honesty gives people the freedom to talk about things they wouldn't otherwise.

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.

Our young people are assets to be cultivated and nurtured; let's begin treating them that way.

We've got to establish a Socialist economic structure that will limit private profit-oriented businesses. Whether the transition is peaceful depends on the way our present governmental leaders react. We must commit our lives to this transition ...... We should be very proud of our new breed of soldier. It's not organized but it's mutiny, and they have every right.

The vulnerability of opening your heart fully and deeply to another is terrifying, but at a point in my 50s, I realized that I had to step up to the plate.

I think the entire world is going to be united against us.

Trying to understand the fear I had of truly opening my heart - first, you have to be whole to do that. The fears, the voices in my mind saying, "Oh, you don't want to do that, you might get hurt, they might abandon you - "those are ghost voices from my mom and dad.

In the hyper-sensitised reality of the region in which any criticism of Israel is swiftly and often unfairly branded as anti-Semitic, it can become counterproductive to inflame rather than explain and this means to hear the narratives of both sides, to articulate the suffering on both sides, not just the Palestinians.

Exercise teaches you the pleasure of discipline.