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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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New York City
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Lady Jayne Seymour Fonda
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You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.
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When you think you can't do any more repetitions, do two more.
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Your goal should be to take your body and make it as healthy, strong, flexible and well-proportioned as you can.
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I spent a good deal of time going back over my childhood, my midlife, to try to understand who I was. We're supposed to be complete and whole, and you can't be whole if you're trying to be perfect. Doing a life review helped me get over the disease to please.
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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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If you can intervene early in the lives of girls here and in other parts of the world, you can begin to change the prospects for the future.
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Namby-pamby little routines that don't speed up your heartbeat and make you sweat aren't worth your while.
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Through therapy and a lot of thinking and writing my memoirs, I've been able to use my life as a lesson.
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I never would've imagined in the first part of my life that I could've stood up and said anything. The war in Vietnam changed me. I was so angry. Some of my speeches probably weren't well considered.
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We cannot elect men to office who are afraid of premature evacuation.
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One part of wisdom is knowing what you don't need anymore and letting it go.
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We don't need to be perfect. We're not supposed to be perfect we're supposed to be complete. And you can't be complete if you're trying to be perfect.
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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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One of the wonderful things about being an actor is that every director is different.
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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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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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The sex is better and I understand life better. I don't want to be young again.
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