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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: 87
Born: 1937
Born: December 21
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Lady Jayne Seymour Fonda
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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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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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You cannot expect your children to be happy eating esoteric beige-colored foods when their friends get soda pop, Snickers, and Twinkies.
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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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I wasn't pretty enough to be the pretty girl and I wasn't unattract­ive enough to be the dorky girl.
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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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You can do yoga and be thinking about going shopping. The goal is kind of like meditation, is to be totally present in your body in the moment. That's when the most profound effects of yoga can happen. That's what I urge people to try to do. It's very important to be in your body.
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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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If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.
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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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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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Exercise teaches you the pleasure of discipline.
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When I was in my 40s was I simply produced my own movies because no one offered me anything. But certainly after 50 it's hard for a woman, which is why television is such a welcoming thing.
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We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.
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Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles.
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I think the Internet and technology in general has changed everything. We can see it overseas even more with the Arab Spring and so forth.
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The woman who respects the needs of her body will junk the junk food.
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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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