Jane Fonda Quotes

I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.

Attachment is not love. Where there is attachment there is exploitation.

As soon as we find ourselves working at being indispensable, rigging up a pattern of vulnerability in our loved ones, we know that our love has taken the socially sanctioned form of egotism.

You can never love anyone to your own detriment. That is not love, that is possession, control, fear, or a combination of them all.

Sometimes you can be with someone that you love, but you know it's not healthy for you. You stay with them because you can't stand the thought of them being with someone else. It kills you.

Love without evidence is stalking.

Why do I always feel like you're trying to staple my umbilical cord to the corner of your desk?

A certain type of man, when he loves for the first time, his love is not really love, it is possession. Possessions don't have rights or feelings; they are something to owned and controlled. He had spent more than a year trying to do just that, and failing.

I made a film called 'Bad Timing' that I thought everybody would respond to. It was about obsessive love and physical obsession. I thought this must touch everyone, from university dons down.

A codependent person is one who has let another person's behavior affect him or her and who is obsessed with controlling that person's behavior.

When you're in the throes of this romantic love, it's overwhelming - you're out of control, you're irrational, you're going to the gym at 6 A.M. every day - Why? Because she's there.

I tell people my only successful long-term relationship was with Jim Packard. He was my rock. I didn't realize how codependent I was.

I needed somebody to love me, and the people that I chose were my coaches. I would sacrifice my body to be successful for my coaches because I wanted them to love me, to respect me, to have positive feelings about me.

When you can't have someone but you're not willing to accept that, you try harder and become more extreme about it. Either you win the person back or you drive him away.

Some loves are like a vice that has ceased to give pleasure.

I do like to belong to a man.

In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression.

When he was on the streets, I was consumed with Nic. I was obsessed with him to the point that I could barely function.

We're often blinded by romance; we decide to not see things we don't want to see, and put up with behavior that we shouldn't put up with.

The guy who wants to spend all his time with you may seem romantic, but he's also the guy who'll try to stop you from doing anything that doesn't involve him. If he presses you to ditch hobbies, passions, and friends, it's time to ditch him.

She lets him see how afraid she is to be without him and he soon comes to feel as though he has a 100 percent hold on her. This is often the point when women begin to complain: “He doesn’t make enough time for me. He isn’t as romantic as he used to be.

…was designed to protect his heart, to bind me and bribe me to stay with him no matter what. He was giving everything he had.

I knew what love was supposed to be: obsession with undertones of nausea.

He’s my whole world.” “Don’t ever say that about anyone again. Not even me.

Possessiveness destroys love. And they should not be possessed, because that again destroys your love.