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.

Christianity or any religion doesn't necessarily have to be about a church. You carry your God inside you... But when you're famous and the word gets out that you're a Christian, every church is saying, "Even Jane Fonda." People come up to me in airports and throw their arms around me.

Reproductive freedom is a real danger for the patriarchy, because it means that women are empowered.

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.

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

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

I always carry yeast flakes and bran with me when I travel.