You think you're being broken but you're really being broken open...and that's where the healing happens, in those broken places...if you'll allow it.
Jane FondaRead
Look what scares you in the face and try to understand it. Empathy is revolutionary.
Interpretation
Confronting your fears with understanding can lead to profound change through empathy.
In this quote, Jane Fonda emphasizes the importance of facing our fears and understanding them rather than avoiding them. By doing so, we can cultivate empathy, which Fonda describes as a revolutionary force that has the potential to transform society and our interactions with others.
In practice
Using this quote during a motivational speech to encourage personal growth.
You think you're being broken but you're really being broken open...and that's where the healing happens, in those broken places...if you'll allow it.
When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed.
I was in my mid-40s. I was a bulimic, and I realized if I continue with this addiction of mine, I will not be able to continue doing my life. The older you get the more damage it does; it takes longer to recover from a binge. And it was very hard.
To make the revolution in the United States is a slow day by day job that requires patience and discipline. It is the only way to make it. . . . All I know is that despite the fact that I am one of the people who benefit from a capitalist society, I find that any system which exploits other people cannot and should not exist.
I know how gratifying it is not only to work in film but to be acknowledged by peers; producing 9 to 5 was an opportunity that I valued precisely because itβs so rarely in the hands of women.
Some people are surprised that the Republicans are waging a war on women, or that they voted against equal pay for women. I'm not surprised at all. In some ways, it may be a good thing. They're defending the patriarchy, which is a wounded beast! And wounded beasts are always dangerous.
I am anchored on a resolve you cannot shake. My heart, my conscience shall dispose of my hand - they only. Know this at last.
Nobody can take those footsteps I made on the surface of the moon away from me.
Slavery is something that is all too often swept under the carpet. The shame doesn't even belong to us, but we still experience it because we're a part of the African race. If it happened to one, it happened to all. We carry that burden.
In honour I gained them, and in honour I will die with them.
It takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.
To be the equal of one's opponent-this is the first condition of an honourable duel.
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