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The Bond Between A Parent And Child Is The Primary Bond, The Foundation For The Rest Of The Child's Life. The Presence Or Absence Of This Bond Determines Much About The Child's Resiliency And What Kind Of Adult They Will Grow Up To Be.

-Jane Fonda

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The Bond Between A Parent And Child Is The Primary Bond, The Foundation For The Rest Of The Child's Life. The Presence Or Absence Of This Bond Determines Much About The Child's Resiliency And What Kind Of Adult They Will Grow Up To Be.

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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.

So I Grew Up Feeling That I Wasn't Good Enough, And That No-one Would Love Me Unless I Was Perfect. But No-one's Perfect, We're Not Meant To Be Perfect. We're Meant To Be Complete. But It's Hard To Be Complete If You're Trying To Be Perfect, So You Kind Of Become Disembodied. And I Spent A Lot Of My Life That Way.""and If You Don't Own Your Strength... Women Like Me Tend To Always Look Over Their Shoulder To See Who... "who's The Leader? Who's The Smart One?" Never Thinking It Might Be Me. Took A Long Time For Me To Get Over That.

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

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