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I am able to talk about my life in a way that helps other women - and men, but mostly women - understand their own life. I feel real proud of that.

Jane Fonda

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Jane Fonda
Age: 86
Born: 1937
Born: December 21
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We grow up being told, Be a good girl. When you're told to be good, you have to get rid of whatever is bad.
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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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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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The absolute minimum for effective exercise is three times a week on alternate days for at least half an hour.
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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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The challenge is not to be perfect. It’s to be whole.
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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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You shouldn't give up. For a while, you have to stay close to the wall and be careful who you spend time with and take care of yourself.
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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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I'd like to think that I have integrity.
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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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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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The capacity of young people to persevere, even under the most adverse conditions, never ceases to amaze me.
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We've got to establish a socialistic economic structure that will limit private, profit-oriented businesses.
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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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We cannot elect men to office who are afraid of premature evacuation.
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I have a confidence about my life that comes from standing tall on my own two feet.
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