On her activism
\"It's like what the hell do you have to lose? So arrest me already. So I'm going to go to the barricades. So I'm going to be an activist like you've never seen,\" she told Colbert. \"So what. What can they do to me now that they haven't already tried and failed?\"
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PHOTO: Jane Fonda poses for a portrait in Los Angeles, 1984.
On being fit
\"I have a fake hip, a fake knee and I’ve had a number of back surgeries, so I’m sort of half-metal and half-bionic now. I have osteoarthritis and getting in and out of a car is a challenge,\" she told the Daily Mail. \"But I feel lucky that I did a lot of fitness work earlier in my life because it means I’m stronger now.\"
On finally understanding intimacy
\"When my first grandchild was born, that’s when I understood intimacy. I wasn’t the best mother to my daughter -- I became a political activist just as she was born so I was away a lot, which I’ve apologized to her about,\" Fonda told the Daily Mail. \"But when my grandchildren came along, a part of my heart broke open. It’s not everyone who gets to be a grandparent, but if you do, it gives you a second chance. I feel lucky to be given that.\"
On changing our view of aging
A more appropriate metaphor for aging is a staircase,\" she said in her 2011 TEDx talk. \"The upward accession of the human spirit, bringing us into wisdom, wholeness and authenticity. Age not at all as pathology but age as potential.\"
On never being happier
\"Now that I'm smack dab in the middle of my third act, I've never been happier,\" she told her TEDx audience. \"I have such a powerful feeling of wellbeing.\"
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