Jane Fonda Quotes

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

Deep, Belief, Side

I knew that I had to write my memoirs.
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Write, Knew, Memoirs

I think feminism is about the spirit.
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Spirit, Feminism

I was raised in the '50s. I was taught by my father that how I looked was all that mattered, frankly.
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Father, Taught, Frankly

I was so devastated by my second divorce that I had a nervous breakdown.
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Divorce, Second, Nervous

I would have given up acting in a minute. I didn't like how it set me apart from other people.
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Acting, Minute, Apart

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.
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Waiting, Week, Lucky

I'm not sure that I would have become a Christian if I had continued to live in Hollywood because the notion wouldn't have occurred to me.
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Live, Christian, Become

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Telling lies and showing off to get attention are mistakes I made that I don't want my kids to make.
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Mistakes, Kids, Off

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

The reality is sobering: in the United States one in three girls will become pregnant before age 20, totaling more than 750,000 girls per year.
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Age, Reality, Before

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

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.
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Age, Living, Old

Children born to teens have less supportive and stimulating environments, poorer health, lower cognitive development, and worse educational outcomes. Children of teen mothers are at increased risk of being in foster care and becoming teen parents themselves, thereby repeating the cycle.
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Health, Teen, Care

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.
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Peace, Important, Before

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.
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Life, Hard, Trying

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.
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Work, Women, Film

I remember saying goodbye to my father the night he left to join the Navy. He didn't have to. He was older than other servicemen and had a family to support but he wanted to be a part of the fight against fascism, not just make movies about it. I admired this about him.
Jane Fonda

Family, Movies, Father

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Nationality: American

Born: December 21, 1937

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