Jane Fonda Quotes

When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed.

Women are rising. And I think that's all the violence and war - it could be the last gasp of the patriarchy, actually.

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

Enjoyable does not necessarily mean easy.

Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles.

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.

I've always felt like a teacher. Whenever I've learned something important, my reaction has always been to tell everybody about it. I read a book, I buy 100 copies and I send them out.

A mother who is obsessing about being thin and dieting and exercising is not going to be a very good mother.

Just saw American Sniper. Powerful. Another view of Coming Home. Bradley Cooper sensational. Bravo Clint Eastwood.

Exercise teaches you the pleasure of discipline.

I grew up with a deep belief that wherever our troops fought, they were on the side of the angels.

My greatest asset is that I am constantly changing.

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

We all, in fact, carry so many people inside us; the only difference is that actors get paid for it, and we sort of spruce it up a bit.

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

In my marriages, I'd lost parts of who I was because I was trying to mold myself into what I thought a man wanted me to be.

I hate to create cynicism about politicians. We just need to invade. Regular people need to run for office and keep their balls and ovaries intact.

Women are not forgiven for aging.

If you're ever in a situation where you're not getting served or you can't get what you need, just cry.

Be a good example and hope the partner gets the hint. Any partner who would attempt to sabotage my fitness regime I would leave... wrong partner.

I find that arduous physical labor can jump-start my thought process.

You cannot expect your children to be happy eating esoteric beige-colored foods when their friends get soda pop, Snickers, and Twinkies.

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.

You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don't find easy, or learn an awful lot very fast, which is what I tried to do.

I feel like when I was an adolescent, and felt so unworthy of love and so empty, I moved outside of myself.

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.

Denial can be a pathology or a survival mechanism - and sometimes it's both.

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.

As is my way, when I start something that I've put off doing, I always start with the hardest form. So I started with Ashtanga.

Consistency can be a trap, especially if it leads to being consistently wrong rather than to stopping, admitting your mistake, and changing course.

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

Female listeners are leaving traditional talk radio because of the rough-edged, shouting nature of it. Women want more light and less heat.

Think about it: Reducing crime and poverty and ensuring that we have an educated, stable work force has a direct effect on you and me and the future of our country.

I don't want to die without knowing who I am.

All my life I had believed that unless I was perfect I would not be loved.

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's hard for women at my age in Hollywood, but I'm not discouraged.

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.

Declare a truce and accept food as a life-giving friend.

Find the balance between the calories you take in and the ones you burn up.

People think actresses find public speaking easy, and it's not easy at all; we're used to hiding behind masks.

Emotionality is really easy for me. My father always said that Fondas can cry at a good steak.

I've been accused of being too flexible, too willing to mold myself to men, and that's something I'm constantly working on.

The absolute minimum for effective exercise is three times a week on alternate days for at least half an hour.

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?

Teach girls to read and to work at something where they can bring home money - and the entire balance of power shifts.

You must decrease the amount of food you eat and increase the amount of exercise you get. That is all there is to it.

The harder you work out, the more you should stretch.