17/11/2022
"I realised later in life that the challenge is not to be perfect, but to be whole." — Jane Fonda
This is #2 in a series of quotes from women I admire.
Jane Fonda is ultimate queen of reinvention, transforming countless times in her career, starting as an innocent starlet, then moving into her sexpot era when she embodied the sci-fi starlet Barbarella, and working on several racy films with her French director husband; Roger Vadim .
An active women's' and civil rights activist and anti-war protester in the late 60s and 70s, her controversial trip to North Vietnam earned her the soubriquet of Hanoi Jane, being monitored by both the FBI and CIA and earning the dubious honour of being arrested on trumped up drug charges on the direct orders of the Nixon White House.
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Her reputation recovered somewhat in the mid-80s when she become every one's favourite video aerobics instructor and also produced and starred in several of highly successful films including The China Syndrome and Nine to Five. In her biographies, she admits to losing herself somewhat in her 'Executive Wife era' while married to Ted Turner. But the thread running through it all is her integrity and deep search within herself.
Now in her 80s, she continues her successful acting career (most recently in Grace and Frankie on Netflix),leads a Climate Change protest every Friday, and shares the wisdom gained during her life through her insightful biographies and other writings