I INTERVIEWED #JANEFONDA ABOUT FEMINISM AND SELFCARE AND IT WAS THE BEST THING EVER!!! Link in bio(only works on mobile phones 📱) Thank you forever #theedit and @netaporter

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In an interview for Net-a-Porter’s The Edit, Jane Fonda opened up about the struggles she’s had to battle due to the patriarchy of society while being interviewed by actress and sexual assault advocate Brie Larson:

“To show you the extent to which a patriarchy takes a toll on females; I’ve been raped, I’ve been sexually abused as a child and I’ve been fired because I wouldn’t sleep with my boss and I always thought it was my fault; that I didn’t do or say the right thing.

“I know young girls who’ve been raped and didn’t even know it was rape. They think, ‘It must have been because I said “no” the wrong way,’” Jane continued. “One of the great things the women’s movement has done is to make us realize that [rape and abuse is] not our fault. We were violated and it’s not right.”

Jane and Brie also talked about the importance of saying NO: “Unlike you, Brie, it took me 60 years to learn how to say no. If anyone offered me anything I would say yes. I took parts I wasn’t right for and I was taken advantage of. I didn’t know how to stand up for myself. Now, I would say, ‘No. This is a piece of sh*t. I don’t like the way you’re treating me,’ and leave. If only I had known then what I do now…

“I regret that I wasn’t a better parent,” Jane said. “I didn’t know how to do it. But you can learn, so I studied how to be a parent. It’s never too late. I am trying to make up for what I didn’t know before. When I die, I want my family to be around me. I want them to love me and I have to earn that. I’m still working at it.”