Jane Fonda

Actress

1937-12-21

Jane Fonda is an American actress and activist known for Klute, Coming Home, and 9 to 5. She won two Academy Awards for Best Actress and has had a long career in film and television.

Quotes by Jane Fonda

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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The reality is sobering: in the United States one in three girls will become pregnant before age 20, totaling more than 750,000 girls per year.
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We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude.
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It's hard for women at my age in Hollywood, but I'm not discouraged.
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Emotionality is really easy for me. My father always said that Fondas can cry at a good steak.
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Children born to teens have less supportive and stimulating environments, poorer health, lower cognitive development, and worse educational outcomes. Children of teen mothers are at increased risk of being in foster care and becoming teen parents themselves, thereby repeating the cycle.
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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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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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Telling lies and showing off to get attention are mistakes I made that I don't want my kids to make.
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I find that arduous physical labor can jump-start my thought process.
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It's never too late - never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.
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The most important thing to do as you age is to stay physically active. Lots of people just throw in the towel if they can't do what they used to do, and that's terrible.
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Our young people are assets to be cultivated and nurtured; let's begin treating them that way.
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I grew up with a deep belief that wherever our troops fought, they were on the side of the angels.
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I feel like when I was an adolescent, and felt so unworthy of love and so empty, I moved outside of myself.
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I took every chance I could to meet with U.S. soldiers. I talked with them and read the books they gave me about the war. I decided I needed to return to my country and join with them - active duty soldiers and Vietnam Veterans in particular - to try and end the war.
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I'm vain. My arms are thin, but I'm vain about loose flesh. And so I'm careful that what I wear will show off my best parts, which are my waist and my butt.
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I'm an assistant storyteller. It's like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I'm waiting on six million people a week, if I'm lucky.
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We can no longer waste time and money. Every day, more than 2,000 girls in America, age 15-19, give birth - in the wealthiest, most educated nation in the world! Neither you nor I should accept this statistic.
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It's about time we make the well-being of our young people more important than ideology and politics. As a country, we benefit from investing in their future by investing in teen pregnancy prevention.
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