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Look what scares you in the face and try to understand it. Empathy is revolutionary.

Jane Fonda

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Jane Fonda
Age: 86
Born: 1937
Born: December 21
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To make the revolution in the United States is a slow day by day job that requires patience and discipline. It is the only way to make it. . . . All I know is that despite the fact that I am one of the people who benefit from a capitalist society, I find that any system which exploits other people cannot and should not exist.
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My position on the POW issue has been widely misquoted and taken out of context. What I originally said and have continued to say is that the POW's are lying if they assert it was North Vietnamese policy to torture American Prisoners.
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Parents are supposed to give the child back to herself with love. If they've got duct tape over their eyes because of narcissism, it doesn't happen.
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I think the entire world is going to be united against us.
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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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How would you like to have a father who keeps getting younger looking every year? Do you realize what that can do to a woman?
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Female listeners are leaving traditional talk radio because of the rough-edged, shouting nature of it. Women want more light and less heat.
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You think you're being broken but you're really being broken open...and that's where the healing happens, in those broken places...if you'll allow it.
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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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A mother who is obsessing about being thin and dieting and exercising is not going to be a very good mother.
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We grow up being told, Be a good girl. When you're told to be good, you have to get rid of whatever is bad.
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I think that, like most of us, I was born with an innate goodness. And I believe that God has seen that in me and has protected me through times when I should have died so I could fulfill my potential and do his work.
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I was raised in the '50s. I was taught by my father that how I looked was all that mattered.
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If adolescent pregnancy prevention is to become a priority, then our strategy, as advocates, must contain two key elements: civic engagement and education.
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The sex is better and I understand life better. I don't want to be young again.
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The skin is our body's envelope, the wrapping that delivers us to the world. If we understand how the skin functions in mid-life and adjust goals and life-styles appropriately, we'll be surprised how much better we can look.
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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.
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Shortly after I turned 50, both Ted Turner and the AARP came into my life. The only difference? With AARP, there were benefits.
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