Queen Jane, Approximately
Hilton Als’s 2011 Profile of the actress and activist Jane Fonda. When she was young, Fonda said, “being a woman meant being a victim, being the loser, being the one that’ll be destroyed.”
"Unlike Tom, who can speak extemporaneously, I have to write everything down," Jane Fonda said at her son's wedding, pulling a script from her purse. Her ex-husband had just finished speaking off the cuff: "We know how Jane always becomes the part she's playing. Hopefully, that won't be the case as mother-in-law."