Jane Fonda

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

“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.”

“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.”

“I was a chameleon, the woman men wanted me to be.”

“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 increase...”

“Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early parenthood. Their future children deserve the opportunity to grow up in financially and e...”

“I was always a courageous woman, capable of confronting governments but not men.”

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

“I see many more men who are feminist, or at least who have learned about life in the context of feminism.”

“I never was a hippie! I went to India because so many friends like Mia Farrow and the Beatles were going there to discover truth. And so I went and trekked through India by myself, but inste...”

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

“The '60s may be idealized in the movie from a cultural point of view, but the decade was all about discord and a big generational split that was very painful.”

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

“A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.”

“Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to people and what kind of an impact you have on the people around you and the community arou...”

“I'm now the elder in the position of doling out wisdom and trying to mend fences.”

“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.”

“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 - acti...”

“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.”

“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...”