The challenge is not to be perfect. It’s to be whole. Jane Fonda More Quotes by Jane Fonda More Quotes From Jane Fonda This toxic striving for perfection is a female thing. How many men obsess about being perfect? For men, generally, good enough is good enough. Jane Fonda toxicperfectmen You can run the office without a boss, but you can't run an office without secretaries. Jane Fonda bossofficerunning Consistency can be a trap, especially if it leads to being consistently wrong rather than to stopping, admitting your mistake, and changing course. Jane Fonda consistencyadmittingmistake So much conspires to silence us - because our truths are inherently subversive. Jane Fonda subversivewomensilence I believe people have different ways of approaching the Word. For me, it's metaphor, written by people a long time after Christ died and interpreted by specific groups. I read the gospels that aren't included in the Bible. These make me feel good about calling myself a Christian. Jane Fonda christianlongbelieve I wasn't a hippie and I wasn't even a bohemian. I was extremely earnest and serious. Jane Fonda bohemianserioushippie I was raised in the '50s. I was taught by my father that how I looked was all that mattered. Jane Fonda raisedtaughtfather When women have reclaimed their voices and men reclaimed their hearts, we won't be invading countries, we won't be feeling that we have the right to launch preemptive wars. Jane Fonda heartwarcountry I am not a do-gooder. I am a revolutionary. A revolutionary woman. Jane Fonda revolutionary I have always been with men who were type A, alpha males. I must exist because I'm with him, I'd think. But what made them what they were also often meant they were lacking empathy genes. And now I know I don't need an alpha male; I need somebody who's interesting. I'm not pretending that I'm 100 percent healed, so I might not know if a man is right for me right away, but it wouldn't take me seven years to figure it out. Maybe a month or two. Jane Fonda meninterestingthinking To do life right, you have to feel like you're growing up until the day you die. The thing I'm proudest of is that I have stayed curious. I have every intention, when I'm on my deathbed, of saying, "Oh, my God - I get it!" Jane Fonda intentiongrowing-uplike-you When a significant other - a spouse, a parent or someone you're close to - is dying, it forces you to think about your life, about what you feel about death. What I realized from my dad's dying was that I wasn't scared of dying. But I was terrified of regrets. I was terrified of getting to the end of my life with a lot of Why didn't I's. Jane Fonda regretparentthinking I like playing that character who brings love to people, who puts people in a place where they're apt to encounter love. Jane Fonda encounterscharacterpeople I always tried, in the books I wrote, to make it clear: Thin is not the goal. But I was thin. So no matter what I said, the subliminal message was, "You have to look a certain way." And I'm not happy about playing into that. Jane Fonda not-happygoalbook Just saw American Sniper. Powerful. Another view of Coming Home. Bradley Cooper sensational. Bravo Clint Eastwood. Jane Fonda powerfulviewshome You don't have to have a man! Masturbation is especially useful for older women, because men die sooner than we do. And so: Use it or lose it. It's not critical that every woman wants to stay juiced up. But if they do, it's perfectly fine. It's a lot easier to feel sexy and perform safely when you're flexible and have a certain amount of strength left. If you keep moving - walking, staying strong, doing squats - then having sex is both safer and more pleasurable, and you feel more empowered and better about yourself. Jane Fonda stay-strongsexymoving Beware of men who use words that relate pejoratively to females when describing the 'other side. Jane Fonda femaleusemen In this age of remote-controlled pushbutton war, we must all try very, very hard to remain human beings. Jane Fonda agetryingwar Shortly after I turned 50, both Ted Turner and the AARP came into my life. The only difference? With AARP, there were benefits. Jane Fonda turnerbenefitsdifferences Denial can be a pathology or a survival mechanism - and sometimes it's both. Jane Fonda denialsurvivalsometimes
