This Hollywood legend has been arrested 6 times for her activism –– from opposing the Vietnam War to fighting for climate justice. At the 2021 Golden Globe Awards, Jane Fonda was recognized with a lifetime achievement award.
This is her story.
This is her story.
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00:00♪ MUSIC ♪
00:25Every single one of us in this country should be doing all we
00:28can to make this country as equitable and fair and clean and
00:36healthy as it possibly can be.
00:38And we have a long way to go.
00:39So we need everybody to take a stand.
00:42♪ MUSIC ♪
01:02A very important thing I learned from AA, Alcoholics Anonymous,
01:07no is a complete sentence.
01:10I wish I knew that as a girl.
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01:28Too few people can succeed as an actress or an actor.
01:31It's a very unhappy business if you've been bitten by the bug
01:34and you can't make it.
01:35And I think there are particular pressures on you when you're the
01:37son or daughter of someone who's already made it.
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01:59Do you think that there are already Barbarellas in the world?
02:05That is, this race of free, generous, adventurous,
02:12brave, innocent and naive women?
02:16I hope so.
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02:24I was associated with movies that were not truthful in the
02:30sense that they portrayed women not as they really are,
02:34which is very complex the way women really are,
02:36but instead portrayed us quite simplistically as always being
02:40defined by men.
02:41I was 32 years old.
02:43I had a child.
02:44And I was dead.
02:47I was a pretty old person.
02:49I had sort of shriveled up like a dead leaf on the branch.
02:53And I suddenly started to get very mad about that.
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03:08I lived in France for seven years.
03:10And it was Vietnam and it was the war in Vietnam who forced me
03:14to ask myself certain questions about America.
03:16And I went back to the United States because I wanted to fight
03:20I care in my country because I care about my country.
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03:34I'm not very happy by what the picture is saying to women,
03:37which is if you get a good shrink and a good guy,
03:39everything will turn out all right.
03:40And I don't think that's true.
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04:55I have spent a lot of my life being identified by the man that
04:59I was with and thinking that if I wasn't with an alpha male
05:02that I wasn't validated.
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05:15When we started 20 years ago, it was so hard.
05:19I mean, there were many counties where we were not allowed to
05:22come in to talk about pregnancy, contraception,
05:29comprehensive sexuality education.
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05:43That's another thing that's missing is older women in the media.
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06:17I think that women are going to be the answer to what
06:20happens in the future.