Background Image

...

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

...

Please Wait....
Translating....

I Have Always Been

Jane Fonda

...

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.

Views: 3

Topic

More From Jane Fonda

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.

Studios Weren't Banging On My Door To Offer Me Parts... And I Thought, Well How Am I Ever Going To Make Movies That Speak To My Heart And To My Values?

Pay More Attention To Losing Inches Than Losing Pounds.

Well, What Is A Relationship? It's About Two People Having Tremendous Weaknesses And Vulnerabilities, Like We All Do, And One Person Being Able To Strengthen The Other In Their Areas Of Vulnerability, And Vice Versa. You Need Each Other. You Complete Each Other, Passion And Romance Aside.

I Hate To Create Cynicism About Politicians. We Just Need To Invade. Regular People Need To Run For Office And Keep Their Balls And Ovaries Intact.

The Sex Is Better And I Understand Life Better. I Don't Want To Be Young Again.

That's What We're All Doing: Paving The Way, Finding The Roles That Have The Complication Instead Of The One That's Always Got It Together Or The Dedicated Housewife Or The Wild One Who Smokes Cigarettes And Sleeps With Anybody.

To Be A Revolutionary You Have To Be A Human Being. You Have To Care About People Who Have No Power.

When I Say Women Are The Agents Of Change, I Really Should Say Women And Girls.

I Never Would've Imagined In The First Part Of My Life That I Could've Stood Up And Said Anything. The War In Vietnam Changed Me. I Was So Angry. Some Of My Speeches Probably Weren't Well Considered.

My Childhood Was Influenced By The Roles My Father Played In His Movies. Whether Abraham Lincoln Or Tom Joad In The Grapes Of Wrath, His Characters Communicated Certain Values Which I Try To Carry With Me To This Day.

A Good Many Dramatic Situations Begin With Screaming.

Dramatic Situations

Relationships Are The Oxygen Of The Psyche.

Getting Fit Is A Political Act - You Are Taking Charge Of Your Life.

Fitness Motivational

A Mother Who Is Obsessing About Being Thin And Dieting And Exercising Is Not Going To Be A Very Good Mother.

When A Child Enters The World Through You, It Alters Everything On A Psychic, Psychological And Purely Practical Level.

As I Started Getting Older, I Realized, 'i'm So Happy!' I Didn't Expect This! I Wasn't Happy When I Was Young.

Go For The Burn! Sweat!

What I Learned Is, We Have To Listen To Each Other, Even When We Don't Agree, Even When We Think We Hate Each Other. We Have To Listen To Each Others Narratives. Not Interrupt Defensively, Or With Hostility, But Really Try To Open Our Hearts And Listen With Empathy. I Learned So Much From That Meeting. It Was A Very Difficult Thing To Do And It Was One Of The Best Things That I Ever Did In My Life. Look What Scares You In The Face, And Try To Understand It. Empathy, I Have Learned, Is Revolutionary.

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.

In My Marriages, I'd Lost Parts Of Who I Was Because I Was Trying To Mold Myself Into What I Thought A Man Wanted Me To Be.

If You Understood What Communism Was, You Would Hope, You Would Pray On Your Knees That We Would Some Day Become Communist. . . . I, A Socialist, Think That We Should Strive Toward A Socialist Society, All The Way To Communism.

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.

We Cannot Elect Men To Office Who Are Afraid Of Premature Evacuation.

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

Feminism Is About Ultimate, Limitless Reality.

I Wasn't Pretty Enough To Be The Pretty Girl And I Wasn't Unattractive Enough To Be The Dorky Girl.

Enjoyable Does Not Necessarily Mean Easy.

A Man Has Every Season While A Woman Only Has The Right To Spring.

Most Of Us Want To Be Strong, But We Are Not.

Think About It: Reducing Crime And Poverty And Ensuring That We Have An Educated, Stable Work Force Has A Direct Effect On You And Me And The Future Of Our Country.

Denial Can Be A Pathology Or A Survival Mechanism - And Sometimes It's Both.

I Believe That We Have To Strive For A Transition To A Socialist Society ... All The Way To Communism. I Mean I Think We Should, Uh, I Think We Should All Study What The Word Means And I Believe That If Everyone Knew What The Word Meant We Would All Be On Our Knees Praying That We Would, As Soon As Possible, Be Able To Live Under, Uh, Within A Communist Structure.

I Think The Internet And Technology In General Has Changed Everything. We Can See It Overseas Even More With The Arab Spring And So Forth.

The Harder You Work Out, The More You Should Stretch.

Address Things Now That Could Otherwise Turn Into Regrets.

An Exercise Outfit Helps Because It Sets This Time Apart From The Rest Of Your Day And Makes It Matter More.

Telling Lies And Showing Off To Get Attention Are Mistakes I Made That I Don't Want My Kids To Make.

You Must Decrease The Amount Of Food You Eat And Increase The Amount Of Exercise You Get. That Is All There Is To It.

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.

It's Better To Be Interested Than Interesting.

To Make The Revolution In The United States Is A Slow Day By Day Job That Requires Patience And Discipline. It Is The Only Way To Make It. . . . All I Know Is That Despite The Fact That I Am One Of The People Who Benefit From A Capitalist Society, I Find That Any System Which Exploits Other People Cannot And Should Not Exist.

Prostitutes Are The Inevitable Product Of A Society That Places Ultimate Importance On Money, Possessions, And Competition.

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.

The Vulnerability Of Opening Your Heart Fully And Deeply To Another Is Terrifying, But At A Point In My 50s, I Realized That I Had To Step Up To The Plate.

How Would You Like To Have A Father Who Keeps Getting Younger Looking Every Year? Do You Realize What That Can Do To A Woman?

You Can Do One Of Two Things; Just Shut Up, Which Is Something I Don't Find Easy, Or Learn An Awful Lot Very Fast, Which Is What I Tried To Do.

Your Goal Should Be To Take Your Body And Make It As Healthy, Strong, Flexible And Well-proportioned As You Can.

I Don't Like The Word 'calculated' Because It Sounds Pejorative. Intentional. Intentional Is Better, I Think. Wild In Passion And Intentional In Expression.

When I Was At The Age When You Were Supposed To Be Glamorous If You Were A Movie Star, I Wasn't.

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.

Ultimately We Must Concern Ourselves With Pulling Out By Its Roots The Decadence That Controls Our Culture, The Profit Motive That Controls Our Culture.

Every Woman Should Eat For The Long Run So She Can Manage The Short Stops Of Crisis.

In Spite Of The Incident, My Experience In Kansas City Was Wonderful And I Thank All The Warm And Supportive People, Including So Many Veterans, Who Came To Welcome Me Last Night.

In This Country, The Only Way A Minority Can Get Anything Done Is To Make A Little Noise.

Refuse To Be Afraid That We Will No Longer Be Considered Attractive And Acceptable When We Are Strong.

The Institution Of Marriage Is Obsolete.

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.

Through Therapy And A Lot Of Thinking And Writing My Memoirs, I've Been Able To Use My Life As A Lesson.

If Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Is To Become A Priority, Then Our Strategy, As Advocates, Must Contain Two Key Elements: Civic Engagement And Education.

When I Left The West Coast I Was A Liberal. When I Landed In New York I Was A Revolutionary.

It's Never Too Late - Never Too Late To Start Over, Never Too Late To Be Happy.

I Confess. If The Law Had Been Appiled To Me Properly For What I Did In Vietnam, I'd Have Been Convicted For High Treason.

One Of The Wonderful Things About Being An Actor Is That Every Director Is Different.

Instead Of Drifting Along Like A Leaf In A River, Understand Who You Are And How You Come Across To People And What Kind Of An Impact You Have On The People Around You And The Community Around You And The World, So That When You Go Out, You Can Feel You Have Made A Positive Difference.

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.

I Remember Saying Goodbye To My Father The Night He Left To Join The Navy. He Didn't Have To. He Was Older Than Other Servicemen And Had A Family To Support But He Wanted To Be A Part Of The Fight Against Fascism, Not Just Make Movies About It. I Admired This About Him.

You Think You're Being Broken But You're Really Being Broken Open...and That's Where The Healing Happens, In Those Broken Places...if You'll Allow It.

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.

Perfection Is A Toxic Desire. We Are Not Supposed To Be Perfect. The Challenge Is Not To Be Perfect, It's To Be Whole.

As Is My Way, When I Start Something That I've Put Off Doing, I Always Start With The Hardest Form. So I Started With Ashtanga.

I Think I Look Good For My Age. I've Always Looked Younger Than I Really Am. I'm 67 And I Look About, Maybe 62 Or Something Like That. And I Think My Healthy Lifestyle Has Paid Off. I Suffer From Osteoarthritis. That's Genetic And There's Nothing I Can Do About That, Except To Try And Not Jump Up And Down, But Rather Swim And Bike, Instead Of Jumping Up And Down.

I've Been Accused Of Being Too Flexible, Too Willing To Mold Myself To Men, And That's Something I'm Constantly Working On.

Mostly Actors Are Progressive Because We Are Accustomed To All The Nuances Of Human Life, Whereas Dictators Just Try To Flatten It All Out. So We Usually Try To Stand Up To Dictators Like, Well, We Won't Mention Names.

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

Exercise Teaches You The Pleasure Of Discipline.

Sex And Intimacy Are Not The Same: You Can Have Sex All Your Life And Never Be Intimate With A Person. There Has To Be Empathy In The Relationship. You Have To Enjoy Seeing Through Their Eyes. When You're With Them, You're There And Not Thinking About What You're Gonna Do Tomorrow.

Female Listeners Are Leaving Traditional Talk Radio Because Of The Rough-edged, Shouting Nature Of It.

I Wasn't A Hippie And I Wasn't Even A Bohemian. I Was Extremely Earnest And Serious.

If You Allow Yourself, You Can Become Stronger In The Very Places That You've Been Broken.

One Part Of Wisdom Is Knowing What You Don't Need Anymore And Letting It Go.

I Feel Like My Honesty Gives People The Freedom To Talk About Things They Wouldn't Otherwise.

I Found That You're More Powerful When Talking From Your Soul.

There Are No Shortcuts And No Sweatless Quickies.

Almost 100 Years After Women Secured The Right To Vote In 1920 Through The 19th Amendment, We Still Do Not Have Equal Rights Under The Constitution. My Question For The Gop Candidates: Do You Support The Equal Rights Amendment?

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.

Our Young People Are Assets To Be Cultivated And Nurtured; Let's Begin Treating Them That Way.

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.

Being By Myself, That Is To Say, Without A Man - It's Been A Long Time - Is Allowing Me To Know What It Feels Like - To Live In My Own Skin, To Remember What I Miss And Don't Miss About A Relationship.

You Can Run The Office Without A Boss, But You Can't Run An Office Without Secretaries.

I Vowed I Wouldn't Get Married Until Someone Gave Me One Good Reason To. No One Ever Did - But I Got Married Anyway.

Good Physical Condition Is Protection. Our Strength Comes From Our Body.

Seven Guidelines For A Healthy Diet 1. Substitute Low-fat Foods For High-fat Foods 2. Cut Down On Meat-eat Low On The Food Chain 3. Avoid Salty And Sugary Foods 4. Cut Down On Sugar 5. Emphasize Whole Grains 6. Beware Of Alcohol 7. Emphasize The Healthy Five: Raw Unsalted Nuts And Sesame Seeds Sprouted Seeds Such As Soybeans Fresh Raw Wheat Bran And Wheat Germ Yogurt And Kefir Fresh Fruits And Vegetables

Women Are Not Forgiven For Aging.

Just Saw American Sniper. Powerful. Another View Of Coming Home. Bradley Cooper Sensational. Bravo Clint Eastwood.

When You Know In Your Heart Why You Did Something, And You Feel And You Know That In Spite Of All The Controversy That It Was Right, Doesn't Matter.

When Food Becomes The Enemy, Every Time We Lose The Fight We Not Only Gain Weight, But Lose Our Self-esteem As Well.

I Feel Like When I Was An Adolescent, And Felt So Unworthy Of Love And So Empty, I Moved Outside Of Myself.

While Not Impossible, It Is Especially Challenging For Teenage Parents To Develop Bonds With Their Children. A High Percent Of Them Were Themselves Children Of Teenage Parents And Have Never Experienced Appropriate Parenting.

I Would Think That If You Understood What Sex Education Is, You Would Get Down On Your Knees And Worship A Condom.

I'd Like To Think That I Have Integrity.

We All, In Fact, Carry So Many People Inside Us; The Only Difference Is That Actors Get Paid For It, And We Sort Of Spruce It Up A Bit.

I Don't Think It's Natural For Two People To Swear To Be Together For The Rest Of Their Lives.

If The Career You Have Chosen Has Some Unexpected Inconvenience, Console Yourself By Reflecting That No Career Is Without Them.

Winning Means Some Kind Of Approval Of The Establishment Which Means People Will More Readily Accept Me, May Be Less Frightened Of Me And Other People Who Speak Out.

Namby-pamby Little Routines That Don't Speed Up Your Heartbeat And Make You Sweat Aren't Worth Your While.

I Knew That My Newfound Activism And Feminism Was Going To Improve My Acting, Because I Was Seeing Things Not Just In Very Narrow, Individual, Kind Of Freudian Terms, But Seeing Them In A Much Broader, Societal Way That Was Going To Deepen And Enrich My Talent.

Everyone Should Know That Feeling Of Overcoming Fear And Mastering Something. People Who Aren't Taught That Become Soggy.

Being Henry Fonda's Daughter Got Me Started. But It Didn't Keep Me Working.

Drink Water Between Meals Instead Of With Them So That The Digestive Juices Will Not Be Diluted.

I Don't Want My Wrinkles Taken Away - I Don't Want To Look Like Everyone Else.

I Would Like To Say Something, Not Just To Vietnam Veterans In New England, But To Men Who Were In Vietnam, Who I Hurt, Or Whose Pain I Caused To Deepen Because Of The Things That I Said Or Did. I Was Trying To Help End The Killing And The War, But There Were Times When I Was Thoughtless And Careless About It And I'm...very Sorry That I Hurt Them. And I Want To Apologize To Them And Their Families.

When You Can't Remember Why You're Hurt, That's When You're Healed. When You Have To Work Real Hard To Re-create The Pain, And You Can't Quite Get There, That's When You're Better.

I Finally Got It: Empower Girls And Everything Changes.

I'll Smoke Pot Every Now And Then. I Cannot See A Movie On Pot. The Number Of Movies I've Seen Thinking, This Is Probably The Best I Have Ever Seen, And Then I'll See It Again Sober And Think, What Was I Thinking?

A Lot Of Things Affect Women Differently Than Men, And Women Get Left Out.

Christianity Or Any Religion Doesn't Necessarily Have To Be About A Church. You Carry Your God Inside You... But When You're Famous And The Word Gets Out That You're A Christian, Every Church Is Saying, "even Jane Fonda." People Come Up To Me In Airports And Throw Their Arms Around Me.

If Our Work Is Stimulating And Rewarding, If It Pushes Us To Grow...we Become More Valuable Human Beings.

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.

When You're An Older Woman [in A Movie] You Tend To Be In - How Did You Put It? You're The Brunt Of The Joke.

Pragmatist That I Am, I Always Meet Necessity With Enthusiasm.

The More You Treat Yourself Positively, The Less You'll Want Or Need To Be Negative.

My Greatest Asset Is That I Am Constantly Changing.

You May Be Old, You May Be In Your Third Act, But You Can Still Be Vital And Sexual And Funny. Life Isn't Over.

Sleep Is Critical To Me... At Least Eight Or Nine Hours A Night. I Start To Slow Down My Body And My Mind At Least 30 Minutes Before I Get Into Bed. I Don't Watch Any Disturbing Or Invigorating Tv At Night. I Also Get Energy From Meditation Practice And From Eating Healthy Fresh Food, Only One Cup Of Espresso In The Morning, And Not Drinking Too Much.

You Know, You're Only As Happy As Your Least Happy Child. So If Your Kids Aren't Okay, You're Not Good.

Seek Women Mentors. If You're A Businesswoman, Look At The Tedx Conferences. There's A Lot Of Businesswomen That Speak On There. I Find Them Extremely Inspiring.

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.

I Think The Entire World Is Going To Be United Against Us.

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.

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.

My Position On The Pow Issue Has Been Widely Misquoted And Taken Out Of Context. What I Originally Said And Have Continued To Say Is That The Pow's Are Lying If They Assert It Was North Vietnamese Policy To Torture American Prisoners.

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!"

I Left Acting For 15 Years, And I Think It's Really Nice To Have Another Life. I Took Too Much For Granted When I Was Younger.

During My First Few Weeks In Hollywood, I Was Told That Jack Warner, The Head Of The Studio, Did Not Believe That A Small-breasted Woman Could Become A Star.

You Spend All Your Life Trying To Do Something They Put People In Asylums For.

The Woman Who Respects The Needs Of Her Body Will Junk The Junk Food.

But The Whole Point Of Liberation Is That You Get Out. Restructure Your Life. Act By Yourself.

Consistency Can Be A Trap, Especially If It Leads To Being Consistently Wrong Rather Than To Stopping, Admitting Your Mistake, And Changing Course.

The News Is Not Gender-neutral, But It's Usually Reported As Though It's Gender-neutral.

Female Listeners Are Leaving Traditional Talk Radio Because Of The Rough-edged, Shouting Nature Of It. Women Want More Light And Less Heat.

Working In Hollywood Does Give One A Certain Expertise In The Field Of Prostitution.

When You Think You Can't Do Any More Repetitions, Do Two More.

Women Don't Make The Decisions In The Media. Even If You See Women On Camera, They Have To Answer To The Person Upstairs, Which Is Mostly Men. Women Only Hold 3% Of The Decision-making Offices In The Media.

In The Hyper-sensitised Reality Of The Region In Which Any Criticism Of Israel Is Swiftly And Often Unfairly Branded As Anti-semitic, It Can Become Counterproductive To Inflame Rather Than Explain And This Means To Hear The Narratives Of Both Sides, To Articulate The Suffering On Both Sides, Not Just The Palestinians.

I Know How Gratifying It Is Not Only To Work In Film But To Be Acknowledged By Peers; Producing 9 To 5 Was An Opportunity That I Valued Precisely Because It’s So Rarely In The Hands Of Women.

I Don't Know If A Country (america) Where The People Are So Ignorant Of Reality And Of History, If You Can Call That A Free World.

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.

We've Got To Establish A Socialistic Economic Structure That Will Limit Private, Profit-oriented Businesses.

You Can Do Yoga And Be Thinking About Going Shopping. The Goal Is Kind Of Like Meditation, Is To Be Totally Present In Your Body In The Moment. That's When The Most Profound Effects Of Yoga Can Happen. That's What I Urge People To Try To Do. It's Very Important To Be In Your Body.

Lee Strasberg Told Me I Had Talent. Real Talent. It Was The First Time That Anyone, Except My Father--who Had To Say So--told Me I Was Good. At Anything. It Was A Turning Point In My Life. I Went To Bed Thinking About Acting. I Woke Up Thinking About Acting. It Was Like The Roof Had Come Off My Life!

When I'm In Canada, I Feel This Is What The World Should Be Like.

I Never Wanted To Be An Actor. My Dad Was An Actor, And He Never Brought Joy Home, So I Didn't View It As Something That I Would Want To Do. But I Got Fired As A Secretary, And Then I Started Studying, I Started Doing It Just To Earn Money. And It Took Me A Long Time To Learn To Love It. And What I Loved Was Telling A Story. I Tried To Avoid Making Plays Or Films That Weren't Telling A Story That I Felt Was Important. I Discovered In The Process That It Makes You More Empathic Because You Have To Enter Someone Else's Reality And Learn To See Through Many Other People's Eyes.

I Left Acting For 15 Years, And I Think It's Really Nice To Have Another Life. I Took Too Much For Granted When I Was Younger. I Didn't Really Want To Be An Actor. I Didn't Really Love It. And So I Made A Lot Of Mistakes. Oddly, I Care Much More About It Now. I Feel Like A Complete Novice.

It Is Never Too Late To Master Your Weaknesses.

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.

Shortly After I Turned 50, Both Ted Turner And The Aarp Came Into My Life. The Only Difference? With Aarp, There Were Benefits.

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.

A Big Mirror To Exercise In Front Of Is Essential.

Magazines, Books, Novels, Tv, Internet, Movies - All Of Those Things Is What Creates Our Consciousness.

I Was So Devastated By My Second Divorce That I Had A Nervous Breakdown.

Ted Needs Someone To Be There 100% Of The Time. He Thinks That's Love. It's Not Love - It's Babysitting.

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.

I Like To Be Wild In Passion And Calculated In Expression! I'm Both. I Like To Be Wild In Passion More. But I Think The Balance Is What's Essential.

Women Are Rising. And I Think That's All The Violence And War - It Could Be The Last Gasp Of The Patriarchy, Actually.

It's Much More Important To Be Interested Than To Be Interesting.

You Cannot Expect Your Children To Be Happy Eating Esoteric Beige-colored Foods When Their Friends Get Soda Pop, Snickers, And Twinkies.

Women Are Not Forgiven For Aging. Robert Redford's Lines Of Distinction Are My Old-age Wrinkles.

No Distractions. Center Yourself. This Is Your Time.

The Glow And Energy Of The Healthy Woman Is The Ultimate Beauty, The Only Beauty That Will Last.

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.

The Capacity Of Young People To Persevere, Even Under The Most Adverse Conditions, Never Ceases To Amaze Me.

Men Fear That Becoming 'we' Will Erase His 'i.' For Women, Our 'we' Is Our Saving Grace Women's Relationships Are Like A Renewable Source Of Power.

If We As A Nation Are To Break The Cycle Of Poverty, Crime And The Growing Underclass Of Young People Ill Equipped To Be Productive Citizens, We Need To Not Only Implement Effective Programs To Prevent Teen Pregnancy, But We Must Also Help Those Who Have Already Given Birth So That They Become Effective, Nurturing, Bonding Parents.

I Lived In France During The '60s. I Was There From The Early '60s Until 1970, So My View Of The '60s Is More Global. It Was A Time Of Tremendous Transition, Not Only For America But For The Whole World.

Whatever Kind Of Workout You Settle On, It Should Include The Big Three Of Exercise For Health And Fitness-aerobics, Resistance Exercises, And Stretching.

Think Of Anger As A Muscle. The Way You Express Anger Isn't The Way That I Do, Or You. If You Have A Good Director, You Will Find That He's Getting You To Use An Entirely Different Muscle That You Never Even Knew You Had - It's Real Hard And Sore, Then After A While It Becomes Normal. And You Discover All These New Muscles When You Enter A New Character - That's What A Director Does For You.

Adult Women, All Of Us, Have To Come To Grips With How We Have Been Affected By Gender Norms, And How We Have Been Silenced. We Have To Help Our Daughters. Understanding It Within Ourselves And Helping Our Young Girls Stand Up For Themselves Is One Way.

If I Can Change, Anybody Can Change.

What's Totally Terrifying Is That, Unlike A Musician Who Has A Musical Instrument, Or A Painter That's Got A Canvas And A Brush, Acting Is Us. Our Energy, Our Soul, Our Spirits. And It's So Hard Because It's So Vulnerable. You're Exposing Everything.

I Never Was A Hippie! I Went To India Because So Many Friends Like Mia Farrow And The Beatles Were Going There To Discover Truth. And So I Went And Trekked Through India By Myself, But Instead Of Discovering Truth, I Wanted To Join The Peace Corps.

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.

Declare A Truce And Accept Food As A Life-giving Friend.

Revolution Is An Act Of Love; We Are The Children Of Revolution, Born To Be Rebels. It Runs In Our Blood.

We Need Women Friends, Women Who Challenge Us... I Have Chosen Not To Have Any More Plastic Surgery. Sally Field And I Have Kind Of Made A Pact About That. It's Really Hard, Especially If You're A Public Person. But I Want To Give A Face To Aging.

We Are Not Meant To Be Perfect; We Are Meant To Be Whole

The Most Incredible Beauty And The Most Satisfying Way Of Life Come From Affirming Your Own Uniqueness.

The Bravest Soldiers Aren't Unafraid, But They're The Ones Who Are Able To Harness Their Fear On Behalf Of Courage.

I Think What's Happening In The World - There's Nothing More Dangerous Than A Wounded Beast, And The Patriarchy Is Wounded.

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.

We Understand That Nixon's Aggression Against Vietnam Is A Racist Aggression, That The American War In Vietnam Is A Racist War, A White Man's War...we Deplore That You Are Being Used As Cannon Fodder For U.s. Imperialism. We've Seen Photographs Of American Bombs And Antipersonnel Weapons Being Dropped, Wantonly, Accidentally Perhaps, On Your Heads, On The Heads Of Your Comrades.

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.

Teach Girls To Read And To Work At Something Where They Can Bring Home Money - And The Entire Balance Of Power Shifts.

I Don't Want To Die Without Knowing Who I Am.

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.

It's Hard For Women At My Age In Hollywood, But I'm Not Discouraged.

The Skin Is Our Body's Envelope, The Wrapping That Delivers Us To The World. If We Understand How The Skin Functions In Mid-life And Adjust Goals And Life-styles Appropriately, We'll Be Surprised How Much Better We Can Look.

You Are Being Used As Cannon Fodder For U.s. Imperialism.

I've Worked Really, Really Hard On Myself To Not Be Judgmental.

The Secret Of Losing Weight Is Patience.

Trending Author

Roberto Cavalli

Ronnie James Dio

Category