Quotes By Jane Fonda

A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

It's hard for women at my age in Hollywood, but I'm not discouraged.

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

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

To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.

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

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

I think feminism is about the spirit.

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'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.

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.

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.

I have a confidence about my life that comes from standing tall on my own two feet.

I find that arduous physical labor can jump-start my thought process.

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.

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 are living on average today 34 years longer than our great-grandparents did.

I would have given up acting in a minute. I didn't like how it set me apart from other people.

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.