Jane Fonda Quotes

The experience of the human, male or female, cannot be completely defined by one startling, surprising, or gigantic life experience.

Men, some to business, some to pleasure take; But every woman is at heart a rake.

I try to define myself through my own choices rather than just accepting society's kind of you're that, you're that, let me put you in a box kind of thing.

It's been helpful to have so many opportunities to look different so people stop pigeonholing you.

Men are not supposed to be mysterious. That's what you say about women. But I think men can have a little of it, too.

What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.

Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.

The only men who aren't in fear of women's reactions are usually men who aren't born or who are dead.

I was a regular little boy who also enjoyed things that girls did.

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

Some people look gender non-conforming because they want to look that way - they don't want to conform to society's expectations.

The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.

I've tried actively to define myself and redefine myself, and not be pigeonholed.

A lot of women read male magazines. Of course, a lot of guys read female magazines, but they've got another issue to deal with. But a lot of women read men's magazines and think, 'Oh, this is what these guys are thinking? Studying up on the enemy here.'

Both men and women are really vast and boundless and yet in many films we're told that they're not. We're told they can only be one thing - like handsome and charming and that's it. Nothing more.

I was very against pink and purple when I was young, because they were girls' colors. But that was only because I didn't want people to write me off for what I can do. When I got into my 20s, I decided that was stupid.

I was very much a tomboy. I just couldn't do the pink ballet tutus.

I'm not 'one of the guys.' I don't want to pretend to be one on stage. I'm not going to dress like a guy or carry myself like one.

I spent my whole life trying to play the games males play.

As a young girl, there were the obvious messages about what girls could and couldn't achieve. And to compound the limitations I felt being leveled upon me, I realized at the age of nine, that I was gay.

For one thing I tend not to see myself in various moulds that people fit me into.

You would never say to a man, 'do you like playing strong men?' You just wouldn't say that.

There was a time where I knew I was as funny as many dudes, but I had people telling me, 'You have to wear a dress onstage. You need to be more feminine.'

I don't think I could keep my position as a well-standing man in the world if I thought there were roles for men and women.

It's not often you get female characters who don't fit into a box.