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In my marriages, I'd lost parts of who I was because I was trying to mold myself into what I thought a man wanted me to be.

The woman who respects the needs of her body will junk the junk food.

A lot of things affect women differently than men, and women get left out.

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.

Denial can be a pathology or a survival mechanism - and sometimes it's both.

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

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.

A big mirror to exercise in front of is essential.

Exercise teaches you the pleasure of discipline.

Beware of men who use words that relate pejoratively to females when describing the 'other side.

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

I confess. If the law had been appiled to me properly for what I did in Vietnam, I'd have been convicted for high treason.

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

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

Reproductive freedom is a real danger for the patriarchy, because it means that women are empowered.

There are no shortcuts and no sweatless quickies.

All my life I had believed that unless I was perfect I would not be loved.

A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.

When you're an older woman [in a movie], you are the brunt of the joke.

I was a chameleon, the woman men wanted me to be.

Women are rising. And I think that's all the violence and war - it could be the last gasp of the patriarchy, actually.

We are not meant to be perfect; we are meant to be whole

When you think you can't do any more repetitions, do two more.

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

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

Pragmatist that I am, I always meet necessity with enthusiasm.

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

I was raised in the '50s. I was taught by my father that how I looked was all that mattered, frankly.

The sex is better and I understand life better. I don't want to be young again.

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

I love films that make you feel good when you come out and, in my opinion, there's not enough of them these days.

When you know in your heart why you did something, and you feel and you know that in spite of all the controversy that it was right, doesn't matter.

We all, in fact, carry so many people inside us; the only difference is that actors get paid for it, and we sort of spruce it up a bit.

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

Refuse to be afraid that we will no longer be considered attractive and acceptable when we are strong.

Good enough is good enough. We're not supposed to be perfect. We're supposed to be complete.

As I started getting older, I realized, 'I'm so happy!' I didn't expect this! I wasn't happy when I was young.

My love life is wonderful.

I finally got it: empower girls and everything changes.

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

I feel like when I was an adolescent, and felt so unworthy of love and so empty, I moved outside of myself.

Good physical condition is protection. Our strength comes from our body.

I think feminism is about the spirit.

Emotionality is really easy for me. My father always said that Fondas can cry at a good steak.

I was always a courageous woman, capable of confronting governments but not men.

The only thing I have never known is true intimacy with a man. I absolutely wanted to discover that before dying.

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

If you allow yourself, you can become stronger in the very places that you've been broken.

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.

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

Pay more attention to losing inches than losing pounds.

I like playing that character who brings love to people, who puts people in a place where they're apt to encounter love.

I don't know if a country (America) where the people are so ignorant of reality and of history, if you can call that a free world.

It's never too late - never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.

Everyone should know that feeling of overcoming fear and mastering something. People who aren't taught that become soggy.

I like to be wild in passion and calculated in expression! I'm both. I like to be wild in passion more. But I think the balance is what's essential.

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

I would think that if you understood what sex education is, you would get down on your knees and worship a condom.

When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed.

An exercise outfit helps because it sets this time apart from the rest of your day and makes it matter more.

It is never too late to master your weaknesses.

Every woman should eat for the long run so she can manage the short stops of crisis.

When you're told to be good, you have to get rid of whatever is bad. I sure identify with that.

The institution of marriage is obsolete

The harder you work out, the more you should stretch.

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

Your goal should be to take your body and make it as healthy, strong, flexible and well-proportioned as you can.

I was so devastated by my second divorce that I had a nervous breakdown.

Enjoyable does not necessarily mean easy.

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

My life is a stairway to heaven, not a 'decline into decrepitude.

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

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

The more you treat yourself positively, the less you'll want or need to be negative.

I vowed I wouldn't get married until someone gave me one good reason to. No one ever did - but I got married anyway

Our young people are assets to be cultivated and nurtured; let's begin treating them that way.

It's better to be interested than interesting.

It's much more important to be interested than to be interesting.

I've been accused of being too flexible, too willing to mold myself to men, and that's something I'm constantly working on.

I don't want to die without knowing who I am.

Feminism is not just about women; it's about letting all people lead fuller lives.

I knew that I had to write my memoirs.

I found that you're more powerful when talking from your soul.

You can run the office without a boss, but you can't run an office without secretaries.

Female listeners are leaving traditional talk radio because of the rough-edged, shouting nature of it. Women want more light and less heat.

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

"Strong" to people means "real." It means you believe that's a person who exists, as opposed to some two-dimensional depiction of women.

You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.

Address things now that could otherwise turn into regrets.

So much conspires to silence us - because our truths are inherently subversive.

I am blessed beyond reason with women friends.

It's never to late- never to late to change your life,never to late to be happy

I would have given up acting in a minute. I didn't like how it set me apart from other people.

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

I always had a penchant for falling in love. Every time I found myself without a mate, I fell into a state of low-sizzling panic.

When I was at the age when you were supposed to be glamorous if you were a movie star, I wasn't.

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.

I like to think both - it's not either/or. It's and.

I feel like my honesty gives people the freedom to talk about things they wouldn't otherwise.

If our work is stimulating and rewarding, if it pushes us to grow ... we become more valuable human beings.