Quotes by Jane Fonda

A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.
– Jane Fonda
A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring.
– Jane Fonda
But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.
– Jane Fonda
I don't know if a country where the people are so ignorant of reality and of history, if you can call that a free world.
– Jane Fonda
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.
– Jane Fonda
If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.
– Jane Fonda
It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. Even the stain on the coffee cup seems not coffee but the physical manifestation of one's inner stain, the fatal blot that from the beginning had marked one for ultimate aloneness.
– Jane Fonda
My husband said he wanted to have a relationship with a redhead, so I dyed my hair.
– Jane Fonda
Ted needs someone to be there 100% of the time. He thinks that's love. It's not love - it's babysitting.
– Jane Fonda
Telling lies and showing off to get attention are mistakes I made that I don't want my kids to make.
– Jane Fonda
The image of Jan Fonda, Barbarella, Henry Fonda's daughter... siting on an enemy aircraft gun was a betrayal... the largest lapse of judgment that I can even imagine.
– Jane Fonda
There are only three ages for women in Hollywood-Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.
– Jane Fonda
To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.
– Jane Fonda
To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
– Jane Fonda
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.
– Jane Fonda
When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed.
– Jane Fonda
Women are not forgiven for ageing. Robert Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles.
– 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
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.
– Jane Fonda
We can no longer waste time and money. Every day, more than 2,000 girls in America, age 15-19, give birth - in the wealthiest, most educated nation in the world! Neither you nor I should accept this statistic.
– Jane Fonda
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.
– 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
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
One part of wisdom is knowing what you don't need anymore and letting it go.
– Jane Fonda
My mother killed herself when I was 12. I won't complete that relationship. But I can try to understand her.
– Jane Fonda
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.
– Jane Fonda
It's hard for women at my age in Hollywood, but I'm not discouraged.
– 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
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
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
I'm a very brave person. I can go to North Vietnam, I can challenge my government, but I can't challenge the man I'm with if means I'm going to end up alone.
– Jane Fonda
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.
– 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
I feel like my honesty gives people the freedom to talk about things they wouldn't otherwise.
– Jane Fonda
I don't think there's anything more important than making peace before it's too late. And it almost always falls to the child to try to move toward the parent.
– 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