Jane Fonda Quotes

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.

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

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

If adolescent pregnancy prevention is to become a priority, then our strategy, as advocates, must contain two key elements: civic engagement and education.

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

Then one night he brought home a beautiful red-haired woman and took her into our bed with me. She was a high-class call girl employed by the well-known Madame Claude. It never occurred to me to objec...

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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...

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 s...

My mother killed herself when I was 12. I won't complete that relationship. But I can try to understand her.

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.

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 aga...

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 preven...