Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin: A hilarious celebration of lifelong female friendship
Jane Fonda og Lily Tomlin: En morsom hyldest til veninder for livet
Jane Fonda has had three extraordinary careers (so far): Oscar-winning actor, fitness guru, impassioned activist. Full bioLily Tomlin - Comedian and actor
Lily Tomlin has been honored by the Kennedy Center and awarded the Mark Twain Prize -- and she's still making vital, hilarious comedy. Full bio
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about female friendship a lot,
over venskab mellem kvinder,
for a very long time, too.
gennem mange år.
that I read about female friendship
om kvindelige venskaber
a lot about someone,"
meget om en person,"
sucks the life out of me.
ud af mig.
look for in a friend?
du efter hos en ven?
who has a sense of fun,
der har sans for humor,
of passion for the planet,
passion for Jorden,
has a sense of justice
og har retfærdighedssans
without my women friends.
mine veninder.
therefore I am."
derfor er jeg."
my women friends. They --
har mine veninder. De --
they make me smarter,
og klogere,
be in need of course-correcting.
når jeg bør rette ind.
a good deal younger than me, too.
meget yngre end jeg.
LT: Thank you.
LT: Tak.
because listen, you know --
for hør her --
to play with and learn from
lære af og lege med
I'll be there sooner than you.
Jeg er der før dig.
parallel aging alongside me.
different kinds of life's journeys,
perioder i livet,
your friendships vital and alive?
venskab vitalt og i live?
I'll tell you that.
I look through my texts
og mine SMS'er
as quickly as possible,
hurtigt som muligt,
for min rådgivning.
are writers, or activists, or actors,
aktivister eller skuespillere,
of other descriptive phrases,
beskrivende fraser,
as soon as possible,
hurtigt som muligt.
JF: No?
JF: Ikke?
JF: I'm really into emojis.
JF: Jeg elsker smileys.
and congratulations,
eneste bogstav
enkelthed.
the importance of friendships,
vigtigheden af venskaber,
not let too much time go by.
undgå der går for lang tid.
I send to my friends.
sender jeg til mine venner.
about women, female friendships,
om kvinder og veninder,
to see how many books,
at se hvor mange bøger,
has been done recently --
der er lavet fornylig --
LT: I was grateful.
LT: Jeg var taknemmelig.
because this is another example
for dette er et andet eksempel
put aside, marginalized.
sættes til side og marginaliseres.
research done on us,
and you all will be interested in this.
og I vil finde det interessant.
har vist
close female friendships
to be living much more vital, exciting --
vitale og spændende --
part is they found --
and so conclusive --
og tydeligt --
is detrimental to your health,
ikke at have tætte veninder,
because there's an additional thing.
noget at tilføje.
for years, decades --
were trying to understand stress,
i forbindelse med stress.
what happens to women when we're stressed,
hvad der sker med kvinder under stress.
that when we're stressed -- women,
kvinder bliver stresset,
med oxytocin.
stress-reducing hormone.
stress-reducerende hormon.
when we're with our women friends.
sammen med veninder.
why we live longer.
vi lever længere.
because they don't have that.
at de ikke har det sådan.
diminishes the effects of oxytocin.
mindsker effekten af oxytocin.
and Dolly made "9 to 5" ...
lavede "9 til 5"...
we laughed so much,
and we're so different.
og er også meget forskellige.
from a poor town in Tennessee,
en fattig by i Tennessee,
bølgelængde som kvinder,
at least a decade onto our lifespans.
mindst et årti til vores livslængde.
crossed our legs a lot.
to our lives right now.
liv lige nu.
sent us both to read on female friendship
som Jane sendte til os
Sister Joan Chittister,
som jeg beundrer meget,
are not just a social act,
kun er sociale,
spiritual to your lives?
i Jeres liv?
you've known a long time,
kendt i lang tid,
essence inside them,
essens indeni dem,
an element of love in the relationship.
i forholdet.
and party friends,
og fest-venner,
friendships have ...
venskaber har ...
because it's a heart opening, right?
fordi de åbner hjertet, ikke?
with my intimate friends.
mine tætte venner.
I'm so touched and inspired by them.
Jeg bliver så rørt og inspireret af dem.
is going to go soon.
Lily, which one are you talking about?
Lily, hvem mener du?
talk about their friendships,
om deres venskaber,
and women friendships?
og kvindelige venskaber?
a lot of empathy for men --
meget empati --
de dør tidligere.
medfølelse med mænd,
are full disclosure, we go deep.
er totalt åbne, vi er dybe.
this is something men don't do.
den slags gør mænd ikke.
have I asked you, "Am I doing OK?"
spurgt dig, "Gør jeg det godt?"
relationships as face-to-face,
ansigt-til-ansigt,
are more side-by-side.
mere side-om-side.
men don't want to reveal their emotions,
at afsløre deres følelser,
conventional thought.
den generelle opfattelse.
and watch a game or hit golf balls,
og se en kamp eller slå til golfbolde,
or hunting, or cars or have sex.
eller biler. Eller have sex.
it's a more manly behavior.
LT: They talk about sex.
LT: De taler om sex.
in their man cave to --
i mande-hulen --
that I find very interesting --
rigtig interessant --
until relatively recently --
dette før relativt nyligt --
as relational as women are.
mulighed for at danne forhold som kvinder.
of newborn baby boys and girls,
just like the girls,
exchange of energy.
udveksling af energi.
they could see the dismay on the child,
kan man se barnet er utilfreds.
as they grow older, does that change?
ændrer sig som de bliver større?
to be emotional with someone is girly.
directions or express a need,
eller udtrykker et behov,
will erase his 'I'."
slette hans "jeg"".
has always been kind of porous.
altid har været porøst.
our masculinity to prove.
LT: I know who Gloria Steinem is.
LT: Jeg ved godt hvem Gloria Steinem er.
but I think it's a --
men jeg tror det er --
don't have our masculinity to prove.
ikke behov for at bevise maskulinitet.
so inculcated in the culture
fået indprentet i kulturen
something different happen.
are like a renewable source of power.
er en genopladelig kilde til energi.
about this subject.
are just a hop to our sisterhood,
bliver nemt søsterlige,
a very powerful force,
kraftfuld energi,
den bør være --
demographic in the world,
del af befolkningen,
we can change the world.
kan vi ændre verden.
that we need to do --
the consumer standards.
need to consume less
må forbruge mindre
buy things that are made locally,
handle lokalt.
that's grown locally.
skal være dyrket lokalt.
that need to get off the grid.
independent from fossil fuels.
af fossile brændstoffer.
and those bad guys --
without going back to the Stone Age.
at vende tilbage til stenalderen.
just aren't quite there yet,
energy and doing just fine.
energi, og de klarer sig fint.
wean ourselves from fossil fuel
back in the Stone Age,
to use renewable energy,
til vedvarende energi,
and not drill --
og ikke borer --
in the Alberta tar sands --
and more jobs and more well-being,
jobs og større velbefindende,
going to lead the way.
to start a third-wave feminist movement
bølge af den feministiske bevægelse
women we may never meet,
kvinder vi måske aldrig møder,
should be between equals
mellem ligemænd
we had souls even, the Greeks.
ikke har sjæle.
just how limited Aristotle was.
begrænset Aristoteles var.
men do need women now.
the Equal Rights Amendment.
i retning af --
since the end of World War II
2. verdenskrig
citizens of equal stature,
kvinder med mænd,
køn er som tidevand,
on how to do that.
der viser vejen.
in different ways,
women can be friends --
man kan være venner --
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Jane Fonda - Actor and activistJane Fonda has had three extraordinary careers (so far): Oscar-winning actor, fitness guru, impassioned activist.
Why you should listen
Jane Fonda is an actor, author, producer and activist supporting environmental issues, peace and female empowerment. She founded the Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention, and established the Jane Fonda Center for Adolescent Reproductive Health at Emory. She cofounded the Women’s Media Center, and sits on the board of V-Day, a global effort to stop violence against women and girls.
Fonda's remarkable screen and stage career includes two Best Actress Oscars, an Emmy, a Tony Award nomination and an Honorary Palme d’Or from the Cannes Film Festival. Offstage, she revolutionized the fitness industry in the 1980s with Jane Fonda’s Workout — the all-time top-grossing home video. She has written a best-selling memoir, My Life So Far, and Prime Time, a comprehensive guide to living life to the fullest.
Jane Fonda | Speaker | TED.com
Lily Tomlin - Comedian and actor
Lily Tomlin has been honored by the Kennedy Center and awarded the Mark Twain Prize -- and she's still making vital, hilarious comedy.
Why you should listen
Throughout her extraordinary career, Lily Tomlin has won seven Emmys; a Tony for her one-woman Broadway show, Appearing Nitely; a second Tony for Best Actress; a Drama Desk Award and an Outer Critics' Circle Award for her one-woman performance in Jane Wagner’s The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe; a Grammy for her comedy album, This Is a Recording; and two Peabody Awards, the first for the ABC television special, Edith Ann’s Christmas: Just Say Noël, and the second for narrating and executive producing the HBO film, The Celluloid Closet. In 2003, she received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, and in December 2014 she was the recipient of the prestigious Kennedy Center Honors in Washington DC.
She made her film debut in Robert Altman's Nashville, and gave a generation-defining performance alongside Dolly Parton and Jane Fonda in the workplace revenge comedy 9 to 5.
Lily Tomlin | Speaker | TED.com