Jane Fonda Quotes

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

~ Jane Fonda

Getting fit is a political act-you are taking charge of your life.

~ Jane Fonda

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.

~ Jane Fonda

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

~ Jane Fonda

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.

~ Jane Fonda

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.

~ Jane Fonda

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.

~ Jane Fonda

If we as a nation are to break the cycle of poverty, crime and the growing underclass of young people ill equipped to be productive citizens, we need to not only implement effective programs to prevent teen pregnancy, but we must also help those who have already given birth so that they become effective, nurturing, bonding parents.

~ Jane Fonda

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

~ Jane Fonda

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.

~ Jane Fonda

The most important thing to do as you age is to stay physically active. Lots of people just throw in the towel if they can't do what they used to do, and that's terrible.

~ Jane Fonda

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.

~ Jane Fonda

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 around you and the world, so that when you go out, you can feel you have made a positive difference.

~ Jane Fonda

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.

~ Jane Fonda

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.

~ Jane Fonda

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

~ Jane Fonda

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 emotionally stable homes. Our communities benefit from healthy, productive, well-prepared young people.

~ 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.

~ Jane Fonda

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

~ Jane Fonda

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

~ Jane Fonda