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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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I'll smoke pot every now and then. I cannot see a movie on pot. The number of movies I've seen thinking, This is probably the best I have ever seen, and then I'll see it again sober and think, What was I thinking?
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Ted needs someone to be there 100% of the time. He thinks that's love. It's not love - it's babysitting.
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I don't like the word 'calculated' because it sounds pejorative. Intentional. Intentional is better, I think. Wild in passion and intentional in expression.
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Getting fit is a political act - you are taking charge of your life.
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I don't think there's anything more important than making peace before it's too late. And it almost always falls to the child to try to move toward the parent.
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I lived in France during the '60s. I was there from the early '60s until 1970, so my view of the '60s is more global. It was a time of tremendous transition, not only for America but for the whole world.
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Stay curious, keep learning and keep growing. And always strive to be more interested than interesting.
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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 done four videos for older people under my new brand, Prime Time, and the missing link was yoga. I'm aiming it for older people - people who have never worked out or who are recovering from a surgery and have to start slow. It's easy, you can't get hurt, it's very doable, and I've done it in ten-minute segments.
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When food becomes the enemy, every time we lose the fight we not only gain weight, but lose our self-esteem as well.
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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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You can run the office without a boss, but you can't run an office without secretaries.
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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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There are no shortcuts and no sweatless quickies.
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Everyone should know that feeling of overcoming fear and mastering something. People who aren't taught that become soggy.
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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 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.
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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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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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