Top 200 Jane Fonda Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Denial can be a pathology or a survival mechanism – and sometimes it’s both.”

— Jane Fonda

52. “The bond between a parent and child is the primary bond, the foundation for the rest of the child’s life. The presence or absence of this bond determines much about the child’s resiliency and what kind of adult they will grow up to be.”

— Jane Fonda

53. “We don’t need to be perfect. We’re not supposed to be perfect; we’re supposed to be complete. And you can’t be complete if you’re trying to be perfect.”

— Jane Fonda

54. “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

55. “Well, what is a relationship? It’s about two people having tremendous weaknesses and vulnerabilities, like we all do, and one person being able to strengthen the other in their areas of vulnerability, and vice versa. You need each other. You complete each other, passion and romance aside.”

— Jane Fonda

56. “Get over the feeling that the two words don’t go together – women and power. The fact is, if we don’t put the two together and don’t understand how power changes complexion in the hands of women, then we’re not going to make it. We have to own our personal power.”

— Jane Fonda

57. “You can do yoga and be thinking about going shopping. The goal is kind of like meditation, is to be totally present in your body in the moment. That’s when the most profound effects of yoga can happen. That’s what I urge people to try to do. It’s very important to be in your body.”

— Jane Fonda

58. “Pay more attention to losing inches than losing pounds.”

— Jane Fonda

59. “Look what scares you in the face and try to understand it. Empathy is revolutionary.”

— Jane Fonda

60. “Women don’t make the decisions in the media. Even if you see women on camera, they have to answer to the person upstairs, which is mostly men. Women only hold 3% of the decision-making offices in the media.”

— Jane Fonda

61. “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

62. “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

63. “I always carry yeast flakes and bran with me when I travel.”

— Jane Fonda

64. “Food is more than a matter of taste-it is the fuel for our bodies.”

— Jane Fonda

65. “Go for the burn! Sweat!”

— Jane Fonda

66. “People think actresses find public speaking easy, and it’s not easy at all; we’re used to hiding behind masks.”

— Jane Fonda

67. “Shortly after I turned 50, both Ted Turner and the AARP came into my life. The only difference? With AARP, there were benefits.”

— Jane Fonda

68. “You cannot expect your children to be happy eating esoteric beige-colored foods when their friends get soda pop, Snickers, and Twinkies.”

— Jane Fonda

69. “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

70. “Magazines, books, novels, TV, internet, movies – all of those things is what creates our consciousness.”

— Jane Fonda

71. “I believe people have different ways of approaching the Word. For me, it’s metaphor, written by people a long time after Christ died and interpreted by specific groups. I read the gospels that aren’t included in the Bible. These make me feel good about calling myself a Christian.”

— Jane Fonda

72. “Through therapy and a lot of thinking and writing my memoirs, I’ve been able to use my life as a lesson.”

— Jane Fonda

73. “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

74. “I knew that my newfound activism and feminism was going to improve my acting, because I was seeing things not just in very narrow, individual, kind of Freudian terms, but seeing them in a much broader, societal way that was going to deepen and enrich my talent.”

— Jane Fonda

75. “Some people are surprised that the Republicans are waging a war on women, or that they voted against equal pay for women. I’m not surprised at all. In some ways, it may be a good thing. They’re defending the patriarchy, which is a wounded beast! And wounded beasts are always dangerous.”

— Jane Fonda

76. “I find that arduous physical labor can jump-start my thought process.”

— Jane Fonda

77. “A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring.”

— Jane Fonda

78. “In this country, the only way a minority can get anything done is to make a little noise.”

— Jane Fonda

79. “Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford’s lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles.”

— Jane Fonda

80. “One part of wisdom is knowing what you don’t need anymore and letting it go.”

— Jane Fonda

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

— Jane Fonda

82. “Almost 100 years after women secured the right to vote in 1920 through the 19th Amendment, we still do not have equal rights under the Constitution. My question for the GOP candidates: Do you support the Equal Rights Amendment?”

— Jane Fonda

83. “Eat only when you are hungry-not because it is one o’clock or seven o’clock or whatever.”

— Jane Fonda

84. “I never would’ve imagined in the first part of my life that I could’ve stood up and said anything. The war in Vietnam changed me. I was so angry. Some of my speeches probably weren’t well considered.”

— Jane Fonda

85. “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

86. “Exercise teaches you the pleasure of discipline.”

— Jane Fonda

87. “There are no shortcuts and no sweatless quickies.”

— Jane Fonda

88. “My position on the POW issue has been widely misquoted and taken out of context. What I originally said and have continued to say is that the POW’s are lying if they assert it was North Vietnamese policy to torture American Prisoners.”

— Jane Fonda

89. “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

90. “Physical fitness is a three-legged stool: strength, aerobic capacity, and flexibility.”

— Jane Fonda

91. “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.”

— Jane Fonda

92. “The glow and energy of the healthy woman is the ultimate beauty, the only beauty that will last.”

— Jane Fonda

93. “Adult women, all of us, have to come to grips with how we have been affected by gender norms, and how we have been silenced. We have to help our daughters. Understanding it within ourselves and helping our young girls stand up for themselves is one way.”

— Jane Fonda

94. “I am not a do-gooder. I am a revolutionary. A revolutionary woman.”

— Jane Fonda

95. “Just saw American Sniper. Powerful. Another view of Coming Home. Bradley Cooper sensational. Bravo Clint Eastwood.”

— Jane Fonda

96. “When women have reclaimed their voices and men reclaimed their hearts, we won’t be invading countries, we won’t be feeling that we have the right to launch preemptive wars.”

— Jane Fonda

97. “Consistency can be a trap, especially if it leads to being consistently wrong rather than to stopping, admitting your mistake, and changing course.”

— Jane Fonda

98. “This toxic striving for perfection is a female thing. How many men obsess about being perfect? For men, generally, good enough is good enough.”

— Jane Fonda

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

— Jane Fonda

100. “I think what’s happening in the world – there’s nothing more dangerous than a wounded beast, and the patriarchy is wounded.”

— Jane Fonda