Jane Fonda
Being Henry Fonda's daughter got me started. But it didn't keep me working.Collection: Daughter
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.Collection: Believe
A big mirror to exercise in front of is essential.Collection: Exercise
Denial can be a pathology or a survival mechanism - and sometimes it's both.Collection: Survival
Lee Strasberg told me I had talent. Real talent. It was the first time that anyone, except my father--who had to say so--told me I was good. At anything. It was a turning point in my life. I went to bed thinking about acting. I woke up thinking about acting. It was like the roof had come off my life!Collection: Father
You are being used as cannon fodder for U.S. imperialism.Collection: Imperialism
Drink water between meals instead of with them so that the digestive juices will not be diluted.Collection: Loss
I always carry yeast flakes and bran with me when I travel.Collection: Loss
The woman who respects the needs of her body will junk the junk food.Collection: Loss
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.Collection: Girl
Find the balance between the calories you take in and the ones you burn up.Collection: Loss
Teach girls to read and to work at something where they can bring home money - and the entire balance of power shifts.Collection: Girl
I don't think it's natural for two people to swear to be together for the rest of their lives.Collection: Marriage
My childhood was influenced by the roles my father played in his movies. Whether Abraham Lincoln or Tom Joad in the Grapes of Wrath, his characters communicated certain values which I try to carry with me to this day.Collection: Father
pragmatist that I am, I always meet necessity with enthusiasm.Collection: Enthusiasm
In this age of remote-controlled pushbutton war, we must all try very, very hard to remain human beings.Collection: War
Women are not forgiven for aging.Collection: Age
Namby-pamby little routines that don't speed up your heartbeat and make you sweat aren't worth your while.Collection: Sweat
The harder you work out, the more you should stretch.Collection: Work Out
When you think you can't do any more repetitions, do two more.Collection: Thinking
The bravest soldiers aren't unafraid, but they're the ones who are able to harness their fear on behalf of courage.Collection: Soldier
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?Collection: Father
I vowed I wouldn't get married until someone gave me one good reason to. No one ever did - but I got married anyway.Collection: Married
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.Collection: Yoga
Everyone should know that feeling of overcoming fear and mastering something. People who aren't taught that become soggy.Collection: Loss
We understand that Nixon's aggression against Vietnam is a racist aggression, that the American war in Vietnam is a racist war, a white man's war...We deplore that you are being used as cannon fodder for U.S. imperialism. We've seen photographs of American bombs and antipersonnel weapons being dropped, wantonly, accidentally perhaps, on your heads, on the heads of your comrades.Collection: War
Most of us want to be strong, but we are not.Collection: Strong
So much conspires to silence us - because our truths are inherently subversive.Collection: Women
Shortly after I turned 50, both Ted Turner and the AARP came into my life. The only difference? With AARP, there were benefits.Collection: Differences
I am convinced that we become what we do.Collection: Loss
When a child enters the world through you, it alters everything on a psychic, psychological and purely practical level.Collection: Children
If you can intervene early in the lives of girls here and in other parts of the world, you can begin to change the prospects for the future.Collection: Girl
Address things now that could otherwise turn into regrets.Collection: Regret
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.Collection: Men
I like to be wild in passion and calculated in expression! I'm both. I like to be wild in passion more. But I think the balance is what's essential.Collection: Passion
Well, what is a relationship? It's about two people having tremendous weaknesses and vulnerabilities, like we all do, and one person being able to strengthen the other in their areas of vulnerability, and vice versa. You need each other. You complete each other, passion and romance aside.Collection: Marriage
I found that you're more powerful when talking from your soul.Collection: Powerful