Top 200 Jane Fonda Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Stay curious, keep learning and keep growing. And always strive to be more interested than interesting.”

— Jane Fonda

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2. “It’s never too late – never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.”

— Jane Fonda

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3. “No Pain No Gain.”

— Jane Fonda

4. “It’s better to be interested than interesting.”

— Jane Fonda

5. “We are not meant to be perfect; we are meant to be whole.”

— Jane Fonda

6. “The secret of losing weight is patience.”

— Jane Fonda

7. “Good enough is good enough. We’re not supposed to be perfect. We’re supposed to be complete.”

— Jane Fonda

8. “Perfection is a toxic desire. We are not supposed to be perfect. The challenge is not to be perfect, it’s to be whole.”

— Jane Fonda

9. “When I’m in Canada, I feel this is what the world should be like.”

— Jane Fonda

10. “No distractions. Center yourself. This is your time.”

— Jane Fonda

11. “You can run the office without a boss, but you can’t run an office without secretaries.”

— Jane Fonda

12. “Revolution is an act of love; we are the children of revolution, born to be rebels. It runs in our blood.”

— Jane Fonda

13. “Relationships are the oxygen of the psyche.”

— Jane Fonda

14. “If you allow yourself, you can become stronger in the very places that you’ve been broken.”

— Jane Fonda

15. “Prostitutes are the inevitable product of a society that places ultimate importance on money, possessions, and competition.”

— Jane Fonda

16. “Declare a truce and accept food as a life-giving friend.”

— Jane Fonda

17. “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

18. “You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don’t find easy, or learn an awful lot very fast, which is what I tried to do.”

— Jane Fonda

19. “When you can’t remember why you’re hurt, that’s when you’re healed.”

— Jane Fonda

20. “You know, you’re only as happy as your least happy child. So if your kids aren’t okay, you’re not good.”

— Jane Fonda

21. “Christ was the first feminist and because of that I’ve learned from his teaching to call myself a Christian feminist, adding that her faith is not a matter of traditions and dogmas but, rather, a spiritual experience.”

— Jane Fonda

22. “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

23. “My greatest asset is that I am constantly changing.”

— Jane Fonda

24. “But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.”

— Jane Fonda

25. “When food becomes the enemy, every time we lose the fight we not only gain weight, but lose our self-esteem as well.”

— Jane Fonda

26. “The most incredible beauty and the most satisfying way of life come from affirming your own uniqueness.”

— Jane Fonda

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

— Jane Fonda

28. “We need women friends, women who challenge us. I have chosen not to have any more plastic surgery. Sally Field and I have kind of made a pact about that. It’s really hard, especially if you’re a public person. But I want to give a face to aging.”

— Jane Fonda

29. “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

30. “I finally got it: empower girls and everything changes.”

— Jane Fonda

31. “Men fear that becoming ‘we’ will erase his ‘I.’ For women, our ‘we’ is our saving grace Women’s relationships are like a renewable source of power.”

— Jane Fonda

32. “Someone once said that under the bell jar of compliance, the only thing that blooms is rage.”

— Jane Fonda

33. “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

34. “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

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

— Jane Fonda

36. “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

37. “You don’t learn from successes; you don’t learn from awards; you don’t learn from celebrity; you only learn from wounds and scars and mistakes and failures. And that’s the truth.”

— Jane Fonda

38. “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

39. “I spent a good deal of time going back over my childhood, my midlife, to try to understand who I was. We’re supposed to be complete and whole, and you can’t be whole if you’re trying to be perfect. Doing a life review helped me get over the disease to please.”

— Jane Fonda

40. “Women are rising. It’s going to get harder before it gets easier, but we can do it if we realize that we have the power. Women will always be the leaders of change.”

— Jane Fonda

41. “My life is a stairway to heaven, not a ’decline into decrepitude.”

— Jane Fonda

42. “The more you treat yourself positively, the less you’ll want or need to be negative.”

— Jane Fonda

43. “The institution of marriage is obsolete.”

— Jane Fonda

44. “It is never too late to master your weaknesses.”

— Jane Fonda

45. “A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.”

— Jane Fonda

46. “Enjoyable does not necessarily mean easy.”

— Jane Fonda

47. “I feel like my honesty gives people the freedom to talk about things they wouldn’t otherwise.”

— Jane Fonda

48. “When I say women are the agents of change, I really should say women and girls.”

— Jane Fonda

49. “As is my way, when I start something that I’ve put off doing, I always start with the hardest form. So I started with Ashtanga.”

— Jane Fonda

50. “Ultimately we must concern ourselves with pulling out by its roots the decadence that controls our culture, the profit motive that controls our culture.”

— Jane Fonda