Best 232 quotes of Jane Fonda on MyQuotes

A big mirror to exercise in front of is essential.

Address things now that could otherwise turn into regrets.

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.

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.

A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.

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?

A lot of things affect women differently than men, and women get left out.

A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring.

A mother who is obsessing about being thin and dieting and exercising is not going to be a very good mother.

An exercise outfit helps because it sets this time apart from the rest of your day and makes it matter more.

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.

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.

As I started getting older, I realized, 'I'm so happy!' I didn't expect this! I wasn't happy when I was young.

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.

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.

Beware of men who use words that relate pejoratively to females when describing the 'other side.

But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.

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.

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.

Christ was the first feminist and because of that I've learned from his teaching to call myself a Christian feminist, adding that her faith is not a matter of traditions and dogmas but, rather, a spiritual experience.

Consistency can be a trap, especially if it leads to being consistently wrong rather than to stopping, admitting your mistake, and changing course.

Declare a truce and accept food as a life-giving friend.

Denial can be a pathology or a survival mechanism - and sometimes it's both.

Drink water between meals instead of with them so that the digestive juices will not be diluted.

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.

Eat only when you are hungry-not because it is one o'clock or seven o'clock or whatever.

Emotionality is really easy for me. My father always said that Fondas can cry at a good steak.

Enjoyable does not necessarily mean easy.

Everyone should know that feeling of overcoming fear and mastering something. People who aren't taught that become soggy.

Every woman should eat for the long run so she can manage the short stops of crisis.

Exercise teaches you the pleasure of discipline.

Female listeners are leaving traditional talk radio because of the rough-edged, shouting nature of it.

Female listeners are leaving traditional talk radio because of the rough-edged, shouting nature of it. Women want more light and less heat.

Feminism is about ultimate, limitless reality.

Find the balance between the calories you take in and the ones you burn up.

Food is more than a matter of taste-it is the fuel for our bodies.

Getting fit is a political act - you are taking charge of your life.

Go for the burn! Sweat!

Good enough is good enough. We're not supposed to be perfect. We're supposed to be complete.

Good physical condition is protection. Our strength comes from our body.

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?

I always carry yeast flakes and bran with me when I travel.

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.

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 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 am convinced that we become what we do.

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.

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.

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 confess. If the law had been appiled to me properly for what I did in Vietnam, I'd have been convicted for high treason.