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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

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Jane Fonda
Age: 86
Born: 1937
Born: December 21
Actor
Actress
Autobiographer
Film Actor
Film Producer
Model
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Writer
New York City
New York
Lady Jayne Seymour Fonda
Hanoi Jane
Jayne Seymour Fonda
Jane Seymour Fonda
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Failures
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Good physical condition is protection. Our strength comes from our body.
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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.
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The glow and energy of the healthy woman is the ultimate beauty, the only beauty that will last.
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Revolution is an act of love we are the children of revolution, born to be rebels. It runs in our blood.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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Go for the burn! Sweat!
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An exercise outfit helps because it sets this time apart from the rest of your day and makes it matter more.
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My identity depended on men for so long. You can be successful and still have the feeling that if you're not with a man you don't exist.
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I finally got it: empower girls and everything changes.
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In the hyper-sensitised reality of the region in which any criticism of Israel is swiftly and often unfairly branded as anti-Semitic, it can become counterproductive to inflame rather than explain and this means to hear the narratives of both sides, to articulate the suffering on both sides, not just the Palestinians.
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Adult women, all of us, have to come to grips with how we have been affected by gender norms, and how we have been silenced. We have to help our daughters. Understanding it within ourselves and helping our young girls stand up for themselves is one way.
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You shouldn't give up. For a while, you have to stay close to the wall and be careful who you spend time with and take care of yourself.
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You can run the office without a boss, but you can't run an office without secretaries.
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Winning means some kind of approval of the Establishment which means people will more readily accept me, may be less frightened of me and other people who speak out.
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Every woman should eat for the long run so she can manage the short stops of crisis.
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I love films that make you feel good when you come out and, in my opinion, there's not enough of them these days.
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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.
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