3 December 2020 Jane Fonda I don’t think there’s anything more important than making peace before it’s too late. And it almost always falls to the child to try to move toward the parent.
3 December 2020 Jane Fonda If adolescent pregnancy prevention is to become a priority, then our strategy, as advocates, must contain two key elements: civic engagement and education.
3 December 2020 Jane Fonda 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.
3 December 2020 Jane Fonda 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.
3 December 2020 Jane Fonda If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.
3 December 2020 Jane Fonda Think about it: Reducing crime and poverty and ensuring that we have an educated, stable work force has a direct effect on you and me and the future of our country.
3 December 2020 Jane Fonda We can no longer waste time and money. Every day, more than 2,000 girls in America, age 15-19, give birth – in the wealthiest, most educated nation in the world! Neither you nor I should accept this statistic.
3 December 2020 Jane Fonda One part of wisdom is knowing what you don’t need anymore and letting it go.
3 December 2020 Jane Fonda 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.
3 December 2020 Jane Fonda I feel like my honesty gives people the freedom to talk about things they wouldn’t otherwise.
3 December 2020 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 experienced appropriate parenting.
3 December 2020 Jane Fonda My mother killed herself when I was 12. I won’t complete that relationship. But I can try to understand her.
3 December 2020 Jane Fonda We’re still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That’s the old metaphor: You’re born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude.
3 December 2020 Jane Fonda My childhood was influenced by the roles my father played in his movies. Whether Abraham Lincoln or Tom Joad in the ‘Grapes of Wrath,’ his characters communicated certain values which I try to carry with me to this day.
