Jane Fonda Men Quotations

My identity depended on men for so long. You can be successful and still have the feeling that if you're not with a man you don't exist.

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.

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.

I see many more men who are feminist, or at least who have learned about life in the context of feminism.

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

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

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

We understand that Nixon's aggression against Vietnam is a racist aggression, that the American war in Vietnam is a racist war, a white man's war...We deplore that you are being used as cannon fodder for U.S. imperialism. We've seen photographs of American bombs and antipersonnel weapons being dropped, wantonly, accidentally perhaps, on your heads, on the heads of your comrades.

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.

We cannot elect men to office who are afraid of premature evacuation.

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

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

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.

I am able to talk about my life in a way that helps other women - and men, but mostly women - understand their own life. I feel real proud of that.

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

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

In my mind it takes a special kind of courage to risk your life in another country, for your own country. The men and women who came back and spoke out were a special kind of hero.