Quotes from Jane Fonda

Telling lies and showing off to get attention are mistakes I made that I don't want my kids to make.

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.

A lot of things affect women differently than men, and women get left out.

A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring.

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.

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.

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

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

Women are rising. And I think that's all the violence and war - it could be the last gasp of the patriarchy, actually.

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

We need women friends, women who challenge us.

So much is made of good, strong roles for women. Actually, it's really interesting playing vul­nerable people as well.

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.

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.

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.

"Strong" to people means "real." It means you believe that's a person who exists, as opposed to some two-dimensional depiction of women.

When you're an older woman [in a movie] you tend to be in - how did you put it? You're the brunt of the joke.

documents out of RAND. As Ellsberg wrote in his 2002 book, Secrets, "What I had in my safe at RAND was seven thousand pages of documentary evidence of lying, by four presidents

Feminism is not just about women; it's about letting all people live fuller lives.

When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed. When you have to work real hard to re-create the pain, and you can't quite get there, that's when you're better.

My life is a stairway to heaven, not a 'decline into decrepitude.

My impressions of Hank are of a man reaching but unreachable, gentle but capable of sudden wild and dangerous violence, sharply critical of others but equally self-critical, caged and fighting the bars but timid of the light, viciously opposed to external restraint, imposing an iron slavery on himself. His face is a picture of opposites in conflict.

Do not leave the theatre satisfied Do not be reconciled. … You cannot live on our wax fruit Leave the theatre hungry For change —FROM EDWARD BOND, On Leaving the Theatre   I

It's never too late – never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.