Quotes by Jane Fonda

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.

The most important thing to do as you age is to stay physically active. Lots of people just throw in the towel if they cant do what they used to do, and thats terrible.

I remember saying goodbye to my father the night he left to join the Navy. He didnt 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 dont learn from successes you dont learn from awards you dont learn from celebrity you only learn from wounds and scars and mistakes and failures. And thats the truth.

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.

The people who did you wrong or who didnt quite know how to show up, you forgive them. And forgiving them allows you to forgive yourself too.

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.

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

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.

If adolescent pregnancy prevention is to become a priority, then our strategy, as advocates, must contain two key elements: civic engagement and education.

One part of wisdom is knowing what you dont need anymore and letting it go.

Im now the elder in the position of doling out wisdom and trying to mend fences.