Jane Fonda Quotes

If you can draw something from my life that helps, more power to you.

I intend to inspire people with my story: motivate young people that grew up like myself, or even not like myself. Just, you know, go through the human experience.

When you share your story and become vulnerable, the ripple effect and the people that you can help along the way is a life lesson.

Getting to a place where I am comfortable saying things was hard-earned for me. I've chewed on the ground glass of my own experience. I saw Gloria Steinem speak, and I was just like, Shut the front door. She was saying that she didn't come into her own until her 40s, and she was asking herself the question, Why should she have to get married? And I just thank God someone asked that question, right? I think we're the first generation of women asking ourselves certain questions and deciding for ourselves.

If I was able to tell my story with the passion I felt, my lecture might help others find a path to fulfilling their own dreams.

I turned my pain into art and my hard work into a career. Helping myself has helped others. helping others has helped me.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

I never modeled myself after anyone. The person who had most influence on me was my mother, but it was really for her strength and courage more than her style, even though she had a lot of style. In a weird way, looking at pictures of me when I was 17 or 18, I was dressing the same way. I haven't changed very much.

I'm a girl who loves to share information, especially empowering, life-changing, information.

Pageants were an amazing platform that gave a little girl like me from the mountains of my beautiful Puerto Rico a chance to travel, explore the world, meet amazing people, work for great charities and be a voice to empower women wherever I went. For all those things, I am grateful.

Growing up with my father's legacy, we never felt that we had to do anything, but we were always raised to think: What could be better than to explore the wonders of the world and share that with people? To try and make the world a better place. And I guess it stuck.

I was a very young girl and I got into fashion very much by accident, wanting to be independent. What was wonderful was that while I was learning and discovering - learning about the work, discovering myself as a woman - I was allowing other women to feel the same way.

Also, I think women really come into their own in their 30s.

Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.

Each of us finds his unique vehicle for sharing with others his bit of wisdom.

This record for the first time - feels like a record that really represents my whole entire life and instead of just a period of my life. And it is really kind of eye opening and it makes me feel really good to hear this record and hear all the years.

If it has something of substance and a platform that makes sense, I can share my story. You can get a little more into my life, and I can mesh my singing with things I love to do and writing for others and telling my story in hopes of helping someone. I'm all for it.

I'm quite content to spend my life helping young people find themselves. I've had my fill of politics.

I'm going to continue the dancing because it really was an inspiration; it changed my life.

I feel so much more aware of who I am today as a woman since I turned 40.

I'm discovering, and I think other mums are discovering too, that when you become a mum, you don't have to change into this frumpy, wholesome role model who is perfect and loses all of your identity. You can still have the same personality you've always had.

I think I am more liberated as an artiste in my late 40s.

I thought my story was over. But that was when I realised I finally had a story to tell - and it seems to remind people of their own story.

I've benefited from great coaches my whole life, starting in sixth grade. To be able to pass that on is a neat experience for me.

My motivation is not to try to inspire, but rather to do things that inspire me and hopefully that will spread to others.