Quotes By Jane Fonda

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

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

Emotionality is really easy for me. My father always said that Fondas can cry at a good steak.

I don't want my wrinkles taken away - I don't want to look like everyone else.

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 spent a good deal of time going back over my childhood, my midlife, to try to understand who I was. We're supposed to be complete and whole, and you can't be whole if you're trying to be perfect. Doing a life review helped me get over the disease to please.

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.

I feel like when I was an adolescent, and felt so unworthy of love and so empty, I moved outside of myself.

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.

We're not meant to be perfect. It took me a long time to learn that.

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.

Parents are supposed to give the child back to herself with love. If they've got duct tape over their eyes because of narcissism, it doesn't happen.

The capacity of young people to persevere, even under the most adverse conditions, never ceases to amaze me.

My mother killed herself when I was 12. I won't complete that relationship. But I can try to understand her.

A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Ted needs someone to be there 100% of the time. He thinks that's love. It's not love - it's babysitting.

I'm not sure that I would have become a Christian if I had continued to live in Hollywood because the notion wouldn't have occurred to me.

I knew that I had to write my memoirs.

I was so devastated by my second divorce that I had a nervous breakdown.

When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed.

One part of wisdom is knowing what you don't need anymore and letting it go.

People think actresses find public speaking easy, and it's not easy at all; we're used to hiding behind masks.

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.

I have people in my life who will say, 'Honey, you're trying too hard.' I like being saucy, but I'm 73 and a half. I'm still trying to find my way between matronly and coltishness.

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

I was raised in the '50s. I was taught by my father that how I looked was all that mattered, frankly.