How Did You Find the Strength to Be an Activist?

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"I've always been part of a movement. So there's always been support around me and love at the worst of the controversy," she says. "Sometimes I think I'm missing a gene because things don't upset me as much as they upset other people." She adds: "If you want to be an activist, don't do it alone".

1. Why she left her body as a child and how she finally reintegrated 50 years later.

2. How, even as a public warrior for the highest ideals of democracy, she’s never had a democratic marriage – and when she knew she had to leave each one.

3. Her deepest fear, why she became happiest at 62, and a peek behind the scenes of her 85th birthday party.

4. How, despite coordinated FBI and White House campaigns to vilify her, she’s kept showing up.

5. Ways to get involved in her fight to defend the environment – and an invitation to march with her. Tomorrow in D.C.!

CW: References to existence of past sexual abuse and ongoing eating disorder recovery

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About Jane:

Jane Fonda is a two-time Academy Award-winning actor (Best Actress in 1971 for Klute and in 1978 for Coming Home), producer, author, activist, and fitness guru. Her career has spanned over 50 years, accumulating a body of film work that includes over 45 films and crucial work on behalf of political causes such as women’s rights, Native Americans, and the environment. She is a seven-time Golden Globe® winner and was honored with the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2021, Stanley Kubrick Excellence in Film Award as part of BAFTA’s Britannia Awards in 2019, AFI Life Achievement Award winner in 2014, and Honorary Palme d’Or honoree in 2007.

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