Quotes by Jane Fonda

“I dont want my wrinkles taken away - I dont want to look like everyone else.”

“promulgate their right wing, narrow world view. It really doesnt have anything to do with me and its kind of sick.”

“This was an organization of men who risked their lives in Vietnam, who considered themselves totally patriotic.”

“I dont think theres anything more important than making peace before its too late. And it almost always falls to the child to try to move toward the parent.”

“I didnt know they could do that.”

“Hes my favorite ex-husband. We get along great. I love to fish, and he has some beautiful property down there.”

“In my mind it takes a special kind of courage to risk your life in another country, for your own country. The men and women who came back and spoke out were a special kind of hero.”

“My mother killed herself when I was 12. I wont complete that relationship. But I can try to understand her.”

“Just watching Bette Davis on the screen was empowering to women, I think. Certainly was to me. It was like: This is whats possible. This is the range and depth that is possible for a woman.”

“People tell about two lies a day, or at least that is how many they will admit to.”

To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.

You can do one of two things just shut up which is something I dont find easy or learn an awful lot very fast which is what I tried to do.

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

When you cant remember why youre hurt thats when youre healed. When you have to work real hard to re-create the pain and you cant quite get there thats when youre better.

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

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.

Its about time we make the well-being of our young people more important than ideology and politics. As a country, we benefit from investing in their future by investing in teen pregnancy prevention.

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.

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.

Its hard for women at my age in Hollywood, but Im not discouraged.