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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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Jane Fonda
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: December 21
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New York City
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Lady Jayne Seymour Fonda
Hanoi Jane
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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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Most of us want to be strong, but we are not.
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Look what scares you in the face and try to understand it. Empathy is revolutionary.
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Rituals are important. I get up. I take the dogs on a walk around to the front and then I pick up the papers. Then I walk around to the front door, then me and the two dogs come in the house and I give them treats. I make coffee. It's the regularity of these kinds of rituals that I find deeply satisfying.
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We all, in fact, carry so many people inside us the only difference is that actors get paid for it, and we sort of spruce it up a bit.
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We've got to establish a socialistic economic structure that will limit private, profit-oriented businesses.
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So much is made of good, strong roles for women. Actually, it's really interesting playing vul­nerable people as well.
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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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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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We need women friends, women who challenge us... I have chosen not to have any more plastic surgery. Sally Field and I have kind of made a pact about that. It's really hard, especially if you're a public person. But I want to give a face to aging.
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I'm a very brave person. I can go to North Vietnam, I can challenge my government, but I can't challenge the man I'm with if means I'm going to end up alone.
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When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed.
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You can do one of two things just shut up, which is something I don't find easy, or learn an awful lot very fast, which is what I tried to do.
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