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As I Saw My 60th Birthday Approaching, I Thought,what Did 60 Mean To Me? I Figured I'd Probably Live Until I'm About 90, Which Meant That I Was At The Beginning Of What I Call My Third Act. As An Actress, I Know How Important The Third Act Is. It Makes Sense Of The First And Second Acts. You Can Have First And Second Acts That Are Interesting, But You Don't Know What They Mean. Then A Good Third Act Pulls It All Together. And So I Knew That, Because I Sat By My Father's Side Over The Long Months When He Was Dying.

-Jane Fonda

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As I Saw My 60th Birthday Approaching, I Thought,what Did 60 Mean To Me? I Figured I'd Probably Live Until I'm About 90, Which Meant That I Was At The Beginning Of What I Call My Third Act. As An Actress, I Know How Important The Third Act Is. It Makes Sense Of The First And Second Acts. You Can Have First And Second Acts That Are Interesting, But You Don't Know What They Mean. Then A Good Third Act Pulls It All Together. And So I Knew That, Because I Sat By My Father's Side Over The Long Months When He Was Dying.

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Aging Is A Staircase - The Upward Ascension Of The Human Spirit, Bringing Us Into Wisdom, Wholeness And Authenticity. As You May Know, The Entire World Operates On A Universal Law: Entropy, The Second Law Of Thermodynamics. Entropy Means That Everything In The World, Everything, Is In A State Of Decline And Decay, The Arch. There's Only One Exception To This Universal Law, And That Is The Human Spirit, Which Can Continue To Evolve Upwards.

Don't Give Up. There Are Lessons To Be Learned Even In The Most Horrendous Pain. And You Don't Know That When You're Young.

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.

I Am Not A Do-gooder. I Am A Revolutionary. A Revolutionary Woman.

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