Jane Fonda Quotes

American - Actress Born: December 21, 1937

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

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

Happy, Be Happy, Start, Late, Never, Too

I have a confidence about my life that comes from standing tall on my own two feet. Jane Fonda

Life, Confidence, My Life, Feet, My Own

Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early parenthood. Their future children deserve the opportunity to grow up in financially and emotionally stable homes. Our communities benefit from healthy, productive, well-prepared young people. Jane Fonda

Education, Future, Opportunity, Children

Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to people and what kind of an impact you have on the people around you and the community around you and the world, so that when you go out, you can feel you have made a positive difference. Jane Fonda

Positive, Community, People, River, Leaf

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. Jane Fonda

Truth, Mistakes, You, Learn, Celebrity

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. Jane Fonda

Health, Children, Parents, Teen, Care

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

Business, Yourself, Unexpected, You

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. Jane Fonda

Truth, Myself, Peace, Friends, India

I took every chance I could to meet with U.S. soldiers. I talked with them and read the books they gave me about the war. I decided I needed to return to my country and join with them - active duty soldiers and Vietnam Veterans in particular - to try and end the war. Jane Fonda

War, Me, End, Chance, Country, Meet

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

Deep, Angels, Belief, Up, Wherever, Side

I love mistakes because it's the only way you learn. Jane Fonda

Love, Mistakes, You, Learn, Way, Because

I see many more men who are feminist, or at least who have learned about life in the context of feminism. Jane Fonda

Life, Men, More, See, Context, Feminism

It's about time we make the well-being of our young people more important than ideology and politics. As a country, we benefit from investing in their future by investing in teen pregnancy prevention. Jane Fonda

Future, Time, Politics, People, Teen

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, Father, Support, Fight, Goodbye

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

Hurt, You, Remember, Why, Healed

We're not meant to be perfect. It took me a long time to learn that. Jane Fonda

Time, Me, Long, Perfect, Meant To Be

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

Father, Good, Me, Easy, Cry, Said

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. Jane Fonda

Forgiveness, Yourself, People, You, Know

If we as a nation are to break the cycle of poverty, crime and the growing underclass of young people ill equipped to be productive citizens, we need to not only implement effective programs to prevent teen pregnancy, but we must also help those who have already given birth so that they become effective, nurturing, bonding parents. Jane Fonda

Parents, People, Teen, Help, Poverty

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. Jane Fonda

Life, Good, Time, Childhood, Me, Doing

Feminism is not just about women; it's about letting all people lead fuller lives. Jane Fonda

Women, People, Lead, Feminism, Just

The only thing I have never known is true intimacy with a man. I absolutely wanted to discover that before dying. Jane Fonda

Man, True, Dying, Never, Only, Intimacy

Telling lies and showing off to get attention are mistakes I made that I don't want my kids to make. Jane Fonda

Mistakes, Attention, Want, Get, Made

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

Power, People, Care, You, Human Being

The bond between a parent and child is the primary bond, the foundation for the rest of the child's life. The presence or absence of this bond determines much about the child's resiliency and what kind of adult they will grow up to be. Jane Fonda

Life, Grow, Child, Rest, Foundation

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. And then the fact that my children are okay. You know, you're only as happy as your least happy child. So if your kids aren't okay, you're not good. Jane Fonda

Life, Women, Good, Children, I Am, Men

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