Frases de Jane Fonda

„Estar com Roger Vadim significava sempre ter outra mulher na minha cama“

—  Jane Fonda

Em sua autobiografia Minha Vida até Agora, sobre o casamento com o cineasta francês que a dirigiu em Barbarella, em abril
Fonte: Revista IstoÉ Gente!, n. 332

„Certa noite, ele trouxe outra mulher para nossa cama e eu topei. Sou muito competitiva e, afinal, eram os anos 60.“

—  Jane Fonda

contando por que cedeu à obsessão de seu ex-marido, o cineasta Roger Vadim, com o sexo a três; como citado em Revista Veja http://veja.abril.com.br/130405/vejaessa.html, Edição 1900 . 13 de abril de 2005

„Passei a vida tentando agradar aos homens. Primeiro meu pai, depois namorados e maridos. É o que chamo doença do agradar“

—  Jane Fonda

Em sua então recém-lançada autografia, Minha vida até agora
Fonte: Revista IstoÉ!, n. 1915

„Fui, sou e serei feminista de corpo e alma.“

—  Jane Fonda

„I believe that we have to strive for a transition to a socialist society … all the way to communism. I mean I think we should, uh, I think we should all study what the word means and I believe that if everyone knew what the word meant we would all be on our knees praying that we would, as soon as possible, be able to live under, uh, within a communist structure.“

—  Jane Fonda

Reported by Jesse Helms on WRAL-TV as remarks made at Duke University, quoted in The News and Courier (29 December 1970) "Freedom Hoax" http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=RchJAAAAIBAJ&sjid=vgwNAAAAIBAJ&pg=4424,7008512
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„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

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

„you can be different if u be u“

—  Jane Fonda

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

—  Jane Fonda

„The challenge is not to be perfect…it’s to be whole“

—  Jane Fonda

„Alternate form: I would think that if you understood what communism was, you would hope and pray on your knees that we would someday be communists. I am a socialist. I think that we should strive toward a socialist society - all the way to communism.“

—  Jane Fonda

Reported by Paul Scott in the Lewiston Daily Sun (27 September 1972) again as remarks at Duke University; http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FXwgAAAAIBAJ&sjid=7mcFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1010,3814989 reported elsewhere as a remark made at Michigan State University (22 November 1970) and cited to the Detroit Free Press but without a date, page or headline.
Rick Perlstein, in a 2005 London Review of Books article and in his 2008 book Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America (Simon and Schuster, p517 http://books.google.com/books?id=dM_enWzoghoC&pg=PA517#v=onepage&q&f=false), accused Helms of inventing the quote: "They tapped their network of friendly media propagandists, like the future Senator Jesse Helms, then a TV editorialist, who supplied an invented quotation that still circulates as part of the Fonda cult’s liturgy." http://www.lrb.co.uk/v27/n22/rick-perlstein/operation-barbarella The COINTELPRO Papers (2002) documents a separate attempt to plant false quotes from Fonda in the press.
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„The institution of marriage is obsolete“

—  Jane Fonda

Jane Would Have Been a Star Even as a Smith. Associated Press/Daytona Beach Morning Journal, 30 June 1963 http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=230eAAAAIBAJ&sjid=OcoEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3114,5294465&dq=the-institution-of-marriage-is-obsolete+fonda&hl=en

„Being Henry Fonda's daughter got me started. But it didn't keep me working.“

—  Jane Fonda

Jane Would Have Been a Star Even as a Smith. Associated Press/Daytona Beach Morning Journal, 30 June 1963 http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=230eAAAAIBAJ&sjid=OcoEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3114,5294465&dq=the-institution-of-marriage-is-obsolete+fonda&hl=en

„The trick is to be Zen about it. Winning is sometimes not the prize“

—  Jane Fonda

On Twitter before the 2009 Tony Awards, as quoted by Canada East/Associated Press. Notable quotes from 2009 Tony Awards. 8 June 2009. http://www.canadaeast.com/entertainment/article/692573

„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

Leo Lerman, Jane Fonda Talks About. Juxtaposition, 1971, said in reference to media reactions to her learning about Indian affairs.

„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

Jane Would Have Been a Star Even as a Smith. Associated Press/Daytona Beach Morning Journal, 30 June 1963 http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=230eAAAAIBAJ&sjid=OcoEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3114,5294465&dq=the-institution-of-marriage-is-obsolete+fonda&hl=en

„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

On the 2004 Presidential election. Rebecca Traister. Enough with the vaginas! Salon, 15 September 2004 http://www.salon.com/life/feature/2004/09/15/ensler

„Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles.“

—  Jane Fonda

Michael Perry. Jane's wrinkled but Fonda herself now. Sydney Morning Herald, 22 December 1985 http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=2a1WAAAAIBAJ&sjid=e-gDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5135,3817429

„To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.“

—  Jane Fonda

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 humanity towards their crew".

„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

Interview by Phil Donahue (1972)