Quotes from Jane Fonda

Whatever kind of workout you settle on, it should include the Big Three of exercise for health and fitness-aerobics, resistance exercises, and stretching.

Exercise teaches you the pleasure of discipline.

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.

"Women's friendships are like a renewable source of power."

Think about it: Reducing crime and poverty and ensuring that we have an educated, stable work force has a direct effect on you and me and the future of our country.

An exercise outfit helps because it sets this time apart from the rest of your day and makes it matter more.

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

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

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

Teach girls to read and to work at something where they can bring home money - and the entire balance of power shifts.

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.

If our work is stimulating and rewarding, if it pushes us to grow...we become more valuable human beings.

No distractions. Center yourself. This is your time.

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

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

A big mirror to exercise in front of is essential.

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

I feel like my honesty gives people the freedom to talk about things they wouldn't otherwise.

The glow and energy of the healthy woman is the ultimate beauty, the only beauty that will last.

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.

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.

He's my favorite ex-husband. We get along great. I love to fish, and he has some beautiful property down there.

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

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