Top 290 Quotes & Sayings by Jane Fonda - Page 4

The sex is better and I understand life better. I don't want to be young again.

Every woman should eat for the long run so she can manage the short stops of crisis.

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?

I wasn't a hippie and I wasn't even a bohemian. I was extremely earnest and serious.

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

Female listeners are leaving traditional talk radio because of the rough-edged, shouting nature of it. Women want more light and less heat.

I think the entire world is going to be united against us.

Men fear that becoming 'we' will erase his 'I.' For women, our 'we' is our saving grace Women's relationships are like a renewable source of power.

The vulnerability of opening your heart fully and deeply to another is terrifying, but at a point in my 50s, I realized that I had to step up to the plate.

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

Christianity or any religion doesn't necessarily have to be about a church. You carry your God inside you... But when you're famous and the word gets out that you're a Christian, every church is saying, "Even Jane Fonda." People come up to me in airports and throw their arms around me.

Almost 100 years after women secured the right to vote in 1920 through the 19th Amendment, we still do not have equal rights under the Constitution. My question for the GOP candidates: Do you support the Equal Rights Amendment?

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 am able to talk about my life in a way that helps other women - and men, but mostly women - understand their own life. I feel real proud of that.

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

I wasn't pretty enough to be the pretty girl and I wasn't unattract­ive enough to be the dorky girl.

In the hyper-sensitised reality of the region in which any criticism of Israel is swiftly and often unfairly branded as anti-Semitic, it can become counterproductive to inflame rather than explain and this means to hear the narratives of both sides, to articulate the suffering on both sides, not just the Palestinians.

I would think that if you understood what sex education is, you would get down on your knees and worship a condom.

I don't want to die without knowing who I am.

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

I've always felt like a teacher. Whenever I've learned something important, my reaction has always been to tell everybody about it. I read a book, I buy 100 copies and I send them out.

We've got to establish a Socialist economic structure that will limit private profit-oriented businesses. Whether the transition is peaceful depends on the way our present governmental leaders react. We must commit our lives to this transition ...... We should be very proud of our new breed of soldier. It's not organized but it's mutiny, and they have every right.

Exercise teaches you the pleasure of discipline.

As is my way, when I start something that I've put off doing, I always start with the hardest form. So I started with Ashtanga.

You may be old, you may be in your third act, but you can still be vital and sexual and funny. Life isn't over.

Be a good example and hope the partner gets the hint. Any partner who would attempt to sabotage my fitness regime I would leave... wrong partner.

I think that, like most of us, I was born with an innate goodness. And I believe that God has seen that in me and has protected me through times when I should have died so I could fulfill my potential and do his work.

Trying to understand the fear I had of truly opening my heart - first, you have to be whole to do that. The fears, the voices in my mind saying, "Oh, you don't want to do that, you might get hurt, they might abandon you - "those are ghost voices from my mom and dad.

There are no shortcuts and no sweatless quickies.

A big mirror to exercise in front of is essential.

We cannot elect men to office who are afraid of premature evacuation.

The absolute minimum for effective exercise is three times a week on alternate days for at least half an hour.

It's much more important to be interested than to be interesting.

pragmatist that I am, I always meet necessity with enthusiasm.

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

Namby-pamby little routines that don't speed up your heartbeat and make you sweat aren't worth your while.

I always carry yeast flakes and bran with me when I travel.

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.

I believe people have different ways of approaching the Word. For me, it's metaphor, written by people a long time after Christ died and interpreted by specific groups. I read the gospels that aren't included in the Bible. These make me feel good about calling myself a Christian.

The harder you work out, the more you should stretch.

Drink water between meals instead of with them so that the digestive juices will not be diluted.

Food is more than a matter of taste-it is the fuel for our bodies.

We grow up being told, "Be a good girl." When you're told to be good, you have to get rid of whatever is bad.

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.

Most of us want to be strong, but we are not.

I am convinced that we become what we do.

During my first few weeks in Hollywood, I was told that Jack Warner, the head of the studio, did not believe that a small-breasted woman could become a star.

The woman who respects the needs of her body will junk the junk food.

I always tried, in the books I wrote, to make it clear: Thin is not the goal. But I was thin. So no matter what I said, the subliminal message was, "You have to look a certain way." And I'm not happy about playing into that.

Declare a truce and accept food as a life-giving friend.

In this age of remote-controlled pushbutton war, we must all try very, very hard to remain human beings.

Beware of men who use words that relate pejoratively to females when describing the 'other side.

Women are not forgiven for aging.

Sleep is critical to me... at least eight or nine hours a night. I start to slow down my body and my mind at least 30 minutes before I get into bed. I don't watch any disturbing or invigorating TV at night. I also get energy from meditation practice and from eating healthy fresh food, only one cup of espresso in the morning, and not drinking too much.

Pay more attention to losing inches than losing pounds.

Shortly after I turned 50, both Ted Turner and the AARP came into my life. The only difference? With AARP, there were benefits.

Find the balance between the calories you take in and the ones you burn up.

I think I look good for my age. I've always looked younger than I really am. I'm 67 and I look about, maybe 62 or something like that. And I think my healthy lifestyle has paid off. I suffer from osteoarthritis. That's genetic and there's nothing I can do about that, except to try and not jump up and down, but rather swim and bike, instead of jumping up and down.

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

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