Best 232 quotes of Jane Fonda on MyQuotes

When a child enters the world through you, it alters everything on a psychic, psychological and purely practical level.

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.

When food becomes the enemy, every time we lose the fight we not only gain weight, but lose our self-esteem as well.

When I left the West Coast I was a liberal. When I landed in New York I was a revolutionary.

When I was at the age when you were supposed to be glamorous if you were a movie star, I wasn't.

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.

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 can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed.

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.

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 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.

When you think you can't do any more repetitions, do two more.

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.

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.

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.

Women are not forgiven for aging.

Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles.

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.

You are being used as cannon fodder for U.S. imperialism.

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.

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.

You cannot expect your children to be happy eating esoteric beige-colored foods when their friends get soda pop, Snickers, and Twinkies.

You can run the office without a boss, but you can't run an office without secretaries.

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.

You don’t learn from successes; you don’t learn from awards; you don’t learn from celebrity; you only learn from wounds and scars and mistakes and failures. And that’s the truth.

You know, you're only as happy as your least happy child. So if your kids aren't okay, you're not good.

You must decrease the amount of food you eat and increase the amount of exercise you get. That is all there is to it.

You're more powerful when talking from your soul.

Your goal should be to take your body and make it as healthy, strong, flexible and well-proportioned as you can.

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.

You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.

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.