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When you're an older woman [in a movie] you tend to be in - how did you put it? You're the brunt of the joke.

Jane Fonda

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Jane Fonda
Age: 86
Born: 1937
Born: December 21
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Lady Jayne Seymour Fonda
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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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Studios weren't banging on my door to offer me parts... And I thought, well how am I ever going to make movies that speak to my heart and to my values?
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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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One of the wonderful things about being an actor is that every director is different.
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The institution of marriage is obsolete.
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Movies are collective, cooperative endeavours, which I like a lot. But writing is all up to you, it's what's so scary it's just you and that page. But I really like it a lot.
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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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When a child enters the world through you, it alters everything on a psychic, psychological and purely practical level.
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I've always felt like a teacher. Whenever I've learned something important, my reaction has always been to tell everybody about it. I read a book, I buy 100 copies and I send them out.
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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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