Jane Fonda Quotes

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.

Relationships are the oxygen of the psyche.

I like playing that character who brings love to people, who puts people in a place where they're apt to encounter love.

In this age of remote-controlled pushbutton war, we must all try very, very hard to remain human beings.

When I was at the age when you were supposed to be glamorous if you were a movie star, I wasn't.

I love films that make you feel good when you come out and, in my opinion, there's not enough of them these days.

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.

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

Getting fit is a political act - you are taking charge of your life.

I think what's happening in the world - there's nothing more dangerous than a wounded beast, and the patriarchy is wounded.

I have always been with men who were type A, alpha males. I must exist because I'm with him, I'd think. But what made them what they were also often meant they were lacking empathy genes. And now I know I don't need an alpha male; I need somebody who's interesting. I'm not pretending that I'm 100 percent healed, so I might not know if a man is right for me right away, but it wouldn't take me seven years to figure it out. Maybe a month or two.

A big mirror to exercise in front of is essential.

That's what we're all doing: paving the way, finding the roles that have the complication instead of the one that's always got it together or the dedicated housewife or the wild one who smokes cigarettes and sleeps with anybody.

Feminism is about ultimate, limitless reality.

We cannot elect men to office who are afraid of premature evacuation.

As I saw my 60th birthday approaching, I thought,What did 60 mean to me? I figured I'd probably live until I'm about 90, which meant that I was at the beginning of what I call my third act. As an actress, I know how important the third act is. It makes sense of the first and second acts. You can have first and second acts that are interesting, but you don't know what they mean. Then a good third act pulls it all together. And so I knew that, because I sat by my father's side over the long months when he was dying.

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

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

Women are not forgiven for aging.

Seek women mentors. If you're a businesswoman, look at the TEDx conferences. There's a lot of businesswomen that speak on there. I find them extremely inspiring.

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

I thought I had learned how to have an intimate relationship. And I thought I'd learned how to be happy. Everybody has issues. For me, the challenge is intimacy, but I really didn't start to get that until I turned 60.

Being by myself, that is to say, without a man - it's been a long time - is allowing me to know what it feels like - to live in my own skin, to remember what I miss and don't miss about a relationship.

The secret of losing weight is patience.

An exercise outfit helps because it sets this time apart from the rest of your day and makes it matter more.

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

What's totally terrifying is that, unlike a musician who has a musical instrument, or a painter that's got a canvas and a brush, acting is us. Our energy, our soul, our spirits. And it's so hard because it's so vul­nerable. You're exposing everything.

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.

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

I was shocked into the realization that I myself had played an unwitting role as a movie star and sex symbol in perpetrating the stereotypes that affected women all over the world.

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.

I will go to my grave regretting the photograph of me in an anti-aircraft carrier [actually, it was in an anti-aircraft gun emplacement, not a carrier], which looks like I was trying to shoot at American planes. [Actually, that was her intention in posing for the photograph the way she did.] It hurt so many soldiers. It galvanized such hostility. It was the most horrible thing I could possibly have done. It was just thoughtless.

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

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

Refuse to be afraid that we will no longer be considered attractive and acceptable when we are strong.

I am convinced that we become what we do.

I've worked really, really hard on myself to not be judgmental.

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

We can no longer waste time and money. Every day, more than 2,000 girls in America, age 15-19, give birth - in the wealthiest, most educated nation in the world! Neither you nor I should accept this statistic.

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.

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

When I say women are the agents of change, I really should say women and girls.

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.

Whatever kind of workout you settle on, it should include the Big Three of exercise for health and fitness-aerobics, resistance exercises, and stretching.

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

Sleep is critical to me... at least eight or nine hours a night. I start to slow down my body and my mind at least 30 minutes before I get into bed. I don't watch any disturbing or invigorating TV at night. I also get energy from meditation practice and from eating healthy fresh food, only one cup of espresso in the morning, and not drinking too much.

But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.

Namby-pamby little routines that don't speed up your heartbeat and make you sweat aren't worth your while.