Hi, I'm Jane Fonda, and I'm on the tightrope.

I just love your fire.

We love your fire, your vision, your courage.

What is it that keeps you going? So many people who would have accomplished

one-tenth of what you've accomplished would have retired and gone off and stayed on that

mountaintop that you talked about. What is it about your calling that keeps you so focused on the

suffering and willing to talk, to sacrifice march to go to jail to serve others.

That's what keeps me from being depressed. I mean, I come from a long line of really depressed people.

And what keeps me depressed is activism and knowing that in some small

way I can make a difference. I mean, I, you know, because I lived a third of my life hedonistically,

I know what that feels like. It ain't no fun. You feel empty.

You know, we're chalices, us,

us Homo sapiens.

We're chalices, and the chalice needs to be full.

You know, and if you don't fill it with the sense of interconnectedness

and meaningfulness, you're going to fill it with booze or sex or

work or shopping or whatever, busyness. And so, you know, I benefit from the fact that I've lived

the other way and I don't ever want to go back there. Number one, number two, you know, everybody

thought, oh, she's, I'm a priv- look, I am. I'm a very privileged white person who was the daughter

of Henry Fonda. And those guys, because originally it was the Nixon administration, they thought,

well, if we scare her enough, if we come after her viciously enough,

you know, she's got white whippersnapp.

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