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I Am Still Baffled By Those Who Feel That Criticizing America Is Unpatriotic, A View Increasingly Being Adopted In The United States Since 9/11 As An Excuse To Render Suspect What Has Always Been An American Right. An Active, Brave, Outspoken (and Heard) Citizenry Is Essential To A Healthy Democracy.

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I Am Still Baffled

Jane Fonda

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I Am Still Baffled By Those Who Feel That Criticizing America Is Unpatriotic, A View Increasingly Being Adopted In The United States Since 9/11 As An Excuse To Render Suspect What Has Always Been An American Right. An Active, Brave, Outspoken (and Heard) Citizenry Is Essential To A Healthy Democracy.

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Physical Fitness Is A Three-legged Stool: Strength, Aerobic Capacity, And Flexibility.

Our Youth Deserve The Opportunity To Complete Their High School And College Education, Free Of Early Parenthood. Their Future Children Deserve The Opportunity To Grow Up In Financially And Emotionally Stable Homes. Our Communities Benefit From Healthy, Productive, Well-prepared Young People.

I Think That, Like Most Of Us, I Was Born With An Innate Goodness. And I Believe That God Has Seen That In Me And Has Protected Me Through Times When I Should Have Died So I Could Fulfill My Potential And Do His Work.

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.

Who Am I? I'm A Survivor. I'm A Woman With Tremendous Inner Resources And Resilience. I Care About People. I Believe In 'do Unto Others As You Would Have Others Do Unto You,' And I Live By That. I Am Becoming Authentic, And That's Important To Me. I Have Surpassed Both My Parents In Terms Of Emotional Stability, Happiness And Well-being. And I'm A Lucky Woman. I've Deserved My Luck.

If You Can Intervene Early In The Lives Of Girls Here And In Other Parts Of The World, You Can Begin To Change The Prospects For The Future.

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.

I Always Had A Penchant For Falling In Love. Every Time I Found Myself Without A Mate, I Fell Into A State Of Low-sizzling Panic.

Falling In Love

Be A Good Example And Hope The Partner Gets The Hint. Any Partner Who Would Attempt To Sabotage My Fitness Regime I Would Leave... Wrong Partner.

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.

Feminism Is About Ultimate, Limitless Reality.

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