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Jane Fonda
17 quotes
“How would you like to have a father who keeps getting younger looking every year? Do you realize what that can do to a woman?”
Jane Fonda (born 1937) first seen 1963 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Jane Would Have Been a Star Even as a Smith. Associated Press/Daytona Beach Morning Journal, 30 June 1963
“Being Henry Fonda's daughter got me started. But it didn't keep me working.”
Jane Fonda (born 1937) first seen 1963 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Jane Would Have Been a Star Even as a Smith. Associated Press/Daytona Beach Morning Journal, 30 June 1963
“The institution of marriage is obsolete”
Jane Fonda (born 1937) first seen 1963 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Jane Would Have Been a Star Even as a Smith. Associated Press/Daytona Beach Morning Journal, 30 June 1963
“I vowed I wouldn't get married until someone gave me one good reason to. No one ever did - but I got married anyway”
Jane Fonda (born 1937) first seen 1969 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Said to Redbook Magazine, quoted by Harold V. Cohen, At Random, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 22 July 1969
“In this country the only way a minority can get anything done is to make a little noise.”
Jane Fonda (born 1937) first seen 1970 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quotes from Women in the News, Associated Press/Gadsden Times, 15 March 1970.
“It's an unfair position, so you can do one of two things: just shut up, which is something I don't find easy, or just learn an awful lot very fast, which is what I tried to do.”
Jane Fonda (born 1937) first seen 1971 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Leo Lerman, Jane Fonda Talks About. Juxtaposition, 1971, said in reference to media reactions to her learning about Indian affairs.
“I believe that we cannot survive as a democratic country when we are supporting someone like Thieu in Saigon, who has put 300,000 political prisoners in jail because they've spoken in favor of peace. I just don't believe that when a Republican Party bugs the Democratic Party headquarters, that that smacks of democracy. These kind of things I speak out against. That doesn't mean I'm a Communist.”
Jane Fonda (born 1937) first seen 1972 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview by Phil Donahue (1972)
“Winning means some kind of approval of the Establishment which means people will more readily accept me, may be less frightened of me and other people who speak out”
Jane Fonda (born 1937) first seen 1972 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On winning the Academy Award for Best Actress. Quotes of the Week. The Associated Press/Reading Eagle, 16 April 1972
“To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.”
Jane Fonda (born 1937) first seen 1977 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Newsweek, 1977, in reference to Jean-Luc Godard. The quote continues: "Godard had contempt for people, contempt for extras. I'd rather work with someone ideologically very different from me if they have concern and huma…
“I am saddened that I have been linked with her politically... I have disagreed with her on every issue, from the bottom of my toes”
Jane Fonda (born 1937) first seen 1979 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On Vanessa Redgrave, reported by Spartanburg Herald-Journal, 28 December 1979.
“Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles.”
Jane Fonda (born 1937) first seen 1985 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Michael Perry. Jane's wrinkled but Fonda herself now. Sydney Morning Herald, 22 December 1985
“It's not about how you look, it's about how you feel. I can do more with ease and grace now at 52 than I could when I was 20. I can ride my bike 60 miles, I can handle stress, I have good muscle tone. That's what it's about. Not about being thin but about being healthy”
Jane Fonda (born 1937) first seen 1990 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Telephone interview quoted by Carol Krucoff. Why Jane's Fonda Exercise;Stress-Busting Workouts and Other News About Staying in Shape. Washington Post, 13 March 1990
“I don't think there's ever been such a clear choice between radicalism and moderation. I mean, we are dealing with a radical ideologue here.”
Jane Fonda (born 1937) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On the 2004 Presidential election. Rebecca Traister. Enough with the vaginas! Salon, 15 September 2004
“It's a lie. I agree with the military experts who say it's a quagmire.”
Jane Fonda (born 1937) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On the Iraq War. Rebecca Traister. Enough with the vaginas! Salon, 15 September 2004
“The trick is to be Zen about it. Winning is sometimes not the prize”
Jane Fonda (born 1937) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On Twitter before the 2009 Tony Awards, as quoted by Canada East/Associated Press. Notable quotes from 2009 Tony Awards. 8 June 2009.
“In the hyper-sensitized reality of the region in which any criticism of Israel is swiftly and often unfairly branded as anti-Semitic, it can become counterproductive to inflame rather than explain and this means to hear the narratives of both sides, to articulate the suffering on both sides, not just the Palestinians.”
Jane Fonda (born 1937) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Jane Fonda expresses regret over film fest protest, by Cassandra Szklarski, September 14, 2009.
“This has gone on far too long, this spreading of lies about me! None of it is true. NONE OF IT! I love my country. I have never done anything to hurt my country or the men and women who have fought and continue to fight for us. I do not understand what the far right stands to gain by continuing with these myths.”
Jane Fonda (born 1937) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Blog posting (16 July 2011)