Jane was starting to cry. I kept flipping slides of grotesque young Saigon women, talking about the breasts and eye operations performed to turn them into round-eyed, round-bodied Westernized women... Suddenly I understood why she was weeping: I was talking about the image of superficial sexiness she once promoted and was now trying to shake. I looked at her in a new way. Maybe I could love someone like this.
An Inclusive Litany
2/1/92
Tom Hayden, from his autobiography,
Reunion,
in a passage that concerns his then future wife,
Jane Fonda: