Jane Fonda
If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.Collection: Business
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.Collection: Parenting
I am blessed beyond reason with women friends.Collection: Women
I remember saying goodbye to my father the night he left to join the Navy. He didn't 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.Collection: Movies
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.Collection: Technology
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.Collection: Health
It's 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.Collection: Teen
To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.Collection: Power
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.Collection: 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.Collection: Positive
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.Collection: Teen
I'm a very brave person. I can go to North Vietnam, I can challenge my government, but I can't challenge the man I'm with if means I'm going to end up alone.Collection: Alone
One part of wisdom is knowing what you don't need anymore and letting it go.Collection: Wisdom
The most important thing to do as you age is to stay physically active. Lots of people just throw in the towel if they can't do what they used to do, and that's terrible.Collection: Age
If adolescent pregnancy prevention is to become a priority, then our strategy, as advocates, must contain two key elements: civic engagement and education.Collection: Education
The people who did you wrong or who didn't quite know how to show up, you forgive them. And forgiving them allows you to forgive yourself too.Collection: Forgiveness
Feminism is not just about women; it's about letting all people lead fuller lives.Collection: Women
A mother who is obsessing about being thin and dieting and exercising is not going to be a very good mother.Collection: Mom
It's never too late - never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.
We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude.
As I started getting older, I realized, 'I'm so happy!' I didn't expect this! I wasn't happy when I was young.
We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.
I was a chameleon, the woman men wanted me to be.
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.
I was in my mid-40s. I was a bulimic, and I realized if I continue with this addiction of mine, I will not be able to continue doing my life. The older you get the more damage it does; it takes longer to recover from a binge. And it was very hard.
We're not meant to be perfect. It took me a long time to learn that.
I took every chance I could to meet with U.S. soldiers. I talked with them and read the books they gave me about the war. I decided I needed to return to my country and join with them - active duty soldiers and Vietnam Veterans in particular - to try and end the war.
Think about it: Reducing crime and poverty and ensuring that we have an educated, stable work force has a direct effect on you and me and the future of our country.
Seek women mentors. If you're a businesswoman, look at the TEDx conferences. There's a lot of businesswomen that speak on there. I find them extremely inspiring.
I'm vain. My arms are thin, but I'm vain about loose flesh. And so I'm careful that what I wear will show off my best parts, which are my waist and my butt.
A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.
I have a confidence about my life that comes from standing tall on my own two feet.
The capacity of young people to persevere, even under the most adverse conditions, never ceases to amaze me.
I don't want to make a cheap analysis, but when you have, like I did, a father incapable of showing emotion, who spends his life telling you that no one will love you if you aren't perfect, it leaves scars.
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.
What we view in the media - and who presents it to us - does so much to determine how we think, how we feel about ourselves, and how we view the world.
I was raised in the '50s. I was taught by my father that how I looked was all that mattered, frankly.
Real love and intimacy can be much more possible when you're older.
I love mistakes because it's the only way you learn.
I know how gratifying it is not only to work in film but to be acknowledged by peers; producing '9 to 5' was an opportunity that I valued precisely because it's so rarely in the hands of women.
I never was a hippie! I went to India because so many friends like Mia Farrow and the Beatles were going there to discover truth. And so I went and trekked through India by myself, but instead of discovering truth, I wanted to join the Peace Corps.
In my marriages, I'd lost parts of who I was because I was trying to mold myself into what I thought a man wanted me to be.
I've done four videos for older people under my new brand, Prime Time, and the missing link was yoga. I'm aiming it for older people - people who have never worked out or who are recovering from a surgery and have to start slow. It's easy, you can't get hurt, it's very doable, and I've done it in ten-minute segments.
Some people are surprised that the Republicans are waging a war on women, or that they voted against equal pay for women. I'm not surprised at all. In some ways, it may be a good thing. They're defending the patriarchy, which is a wounded beast! And wounded beasts are always dangerous.
A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring.
I'm an assistant storyteller. It's like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I'm waiting on six million people a week, if I'm lucky.
When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed.
Ted needs someone to be there 100% of the time. He thinks that's love. It's not love - it's babysitting.
Telling lies and showing off to get attention are mistakes I made that I don't want my kids to make.
But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.