Quotes by Jane Fonda

“While not impossible, it is especially challenging for teenage parents to develop bonds with their children. A high percent of them were themselves children of teenage parents and have never experi...”

“It's about time we make the well-being of our young people more important than ideology and politics. As a country, we benefit from investing in their future by investing in teen pregnancy prevention.”

“Children born to teens have less supportive and stimulating environments, poorer health, lower cognitive development, and worse educational outcomes. Children of teen mothers are at increased risk ...”

“If we as a nation are to break the cycle of poverty, crime and the growing underclass of young people ill equipped to be productive citizens, we need to not only implement effective programs to pre...”

“The reality is sobering: in the United States one in three girls will become pregnant before age 20, totaling more than 750,000 girls per year.”

“The most important thing to do as you age is to stay physically active. Lots of people just throw in the towel if they can't do what they used to do, and that's terrible.”

“It's hard for women at my age in Hollywood, but I'm not discouraged.”

“I remember saying goodbye to my father the night he left to join the Navy. He didn't have to. He was older than other servicemen and had a family to support but he wanted to be a part of the fight ...”

“You don't learn from successes you don't learn from awards you don't learn from celebrity you only learn from wounds and scars and mistakes and failures. And that's the truth. ”

“Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to people and what kind of an impact you have on the people around you and the community around you ...”

“The people who did you wrong or who didn't quite know how to show up, you forgive them. And forgiving them allows you to forgive yourself too.”

“I think the Internet and technology in general has changed everything. We can see it overseas even more with the Arab Spring and so forth.”

“A mother who is obsessing about being thin and dieting and exercising is not going to be a very good mother.”

“Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early parenthood. Their future children deserve the opportunity to grow up in financially and emotiona...”

“If adolescent pregnancy prevention is to become a priority, then our strategy, as advocates, must contain two key elements: civic engagement and education.”

“One part of wisdom is knowing what you don't need anymore and letting it go.”

“I'm now the elder in the position of doling out wisdom and trying to mend fences.”

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

“You can do one of two things just shut up which is something I don't find easy or learn an awful lot very fast which is what I tried to do.”

“Getting fit is a political act-you are taking charge of your life.”