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
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 prevent teen pregnancy, but we must also help those who have already given birth so that they become effective, nurturing, bonding parents.
Interpretation
What this quote means
To break the cycle of poverty and crime, we must support both prevention and assistance for young parents.
Jane Fonda emphasizes the importance of addressing poverty and crime through a dual approach: implementing effective programs that prevent teen pregnancy and providing support to young parents. By nurturing those who have already become parents, we can foster a positive environment for children, allowing them to grow into productive citizens and breaking the cycle of disadvantage in society.
Themes
PovertyCrimeTeen PregnancyParentingEducationSupport
In practice
Example use cases
During a community meeting on improving youth welfare, this quote can be used to highlight the need for comprehensive support programs.
More from Jane Fonda
All quotes →When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed.
Jane FondaRead
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.
Jane FondaRead
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.
Jane FondaRead
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 it’s so rarely in the hands of women.
Jane FondaRead
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.
Jane FondaRead
Similar quotes
When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "One word at a time," and the answer is invariably dismissed. But that is all it is. It sounds too simple to be true, but consider the Great Wall of China, if you will: one stone at a time, man. That's all. One stone at a time. But I've read you can see that motherfucker from space without a telescope.
Stephen KingRead
There is a satisfactory boniness about grammar which the flesh of sheer vocabulary requires before it can become a vertebrate and walk the earth.
Anthony BurgessRead
The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand.
Thomas HuxleyRead
Teaching literature is teaching how to read. How to notice things in a text that a speed-reading culture is trained to disregard, overcome, edit out, or explain away; how to read what the language is doing, not guess what the author was thinking; how to take evidence from a page, not seek a reality to substitute for it.
Barbara JohnsonRead
As I teach, I project the condition of my soul onto my students, my subject, and our way of being together.
Parker J. PalmerRead
Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.
Charles Caleb ColtonRead