Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin: A hilarious celebration of lifelong female friendship
简.方达和莉莉.托姆琳: 闺蜜万岁
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,
for a very long time, too.
that I read about female friendship
我读过塞万提斯说的一些话,
a lot about someone,"
sucks the life out of me.
look for in a friend?
你们希望找一个什么样的朋友?
who has a sense of fun,
of passion for the planet,
has a sense of justice
without my women friends.
我甚至不知道我该做什么。
therefore I am."
my women friends. They --
所以我才有意义地存在。
they make me smarter,
更聪明,
be in need of course-correcting.
a good deal younger than me, too.
LT: Thank you.
莉莉.托姆琳:谢谢。
because listen, you know --
其中包括你,听我说——
to play with and learn from
是很棒的。
I'll be there sooner than you.
parallel aging alongside me.
别这么说,我很高兴与你同行。
经历不同生活的旅程中,
different kinds of life's journeys,
your friendships vital and alive?
I'll tell you that.
I look through my texts
as quickly as possible,
are writers, or activists, or actors,
或者社会活动家,或者演员。
of other descriptive phrases,
as soon as possible,
JF: No?
简.方达:没有?
JF: I'm really into emojis.
简.方达:我很喜欢用表情符号。
and congratulations,
the importance of friendships,
而不过多浪费时间。
not let too much time go by.
I send to my friends.
about women, female friendships,
to see how many books,
以及进行了多少研究——
has been done recently --
LT: I was grateful.
莉莉.托姆琳:喜欢。
because this is another example
轻视的又一个例证。
put aside, marginalized.
research done on us,
但是实质上只进行了极少的研究。
and you all will be interested in this.
并且你们都对它感兴趣。
close female friendships
to be living much more vital, exciting --
part is they found --
and so conclusive --
is detrimental to your health,
所以。。。
because there's an additional thing.
因为有一个补充。
for years, decades --
有几年、几十年——
were trying to understand stress,
what happens to women when we're stressed,
女性遭受压力时发生了什么,
that when we're stressed -- women,
当我们女性遭受压力时,
stress-reducing hormone.
降低压力的荷尔蒙。
when we're with our women friends.
这种荷尔蒙也会增多。
why we live longer.
那是我们活得更久的原因。
because they don't have that.
diminishes the effects of oxytocin.
and Dolly made "9 to 5" ...
一起公司上班的时候,
we laughed so much,
and we're so different.
共同点以及不同点。
from a poor town in Tennessee,
我们能够在那么的息息相通,
at least a decade onto our lifespans.
我们肯定延长了至少十年的寿命。
crossed our legs a lot.
我们确实有很多共同点
我想我们都知道你在说什么。
to our lives right now.
你现在就给我们增长了几十年的寿命。
sent us both to read on female friendship
关于女性友情,
Sister Joan Chittister,
修女琼‧齐谛斯特,
are not just a social act,
spiritual to your lives?
我真的也是这么认为的。
you've known a long time,
essence inside them,
an element of love in the relationship.
以及爱的元素。
and party friends,
friendships have ...
because it's a heart opening, right?
with my intimate friends.
I'm so touched and inspired by them.
而是为了她们感动。
is going to go soon.
还有你知道你们中一人马上要死了。
Lily, which one are you talking about?
莉莉,你说的是哪一个?
talk about their friendships,
当妇女们谈论她们的友情时,
有什么不同?
and women friendships?
a lot of empathy for men --
are full disclosure, we go deep.
我们相处的很深入。
this is something men don't do.
这是男人没有的。
have I asked you, "Am I doing OK?"
我们与女性朋友们像这样提出问题 ,
relationships as face-to-face,
are more side-by-side.
men don't want to reveal their emotions,
我觉得男人们经常并不会发泄情感,
conventional thought.
and watch a game or hit golf balls,
看一场热门高尔乎球赛,
or hunting, or cars or have sex.
it's a more manly behavior.
LT: They talk about sex.
莉莉.托姆琳:他们谈论性爱。
in their man cave to --
that I find very interesting --
你也知道的——
until relatively recently --
as relational as women are.
of newborn baby boys and girls,
just like the girls,
exchange of energy.
they could see the dismay on the child,
as they grow older, does that change?
他们为什么变了?
to be emotional with someone is girly.
directions or express a need,
不要去问方向或表达一个需求。
will erase his 'I'."
has always been kind of porous.
our masculinity to prove.
LT: I know who Gloria Steinem is.
莉莉.托姆琳:我知道葛罗莉亚·斯坦能是谁。
but I think it's a --
但是我想这是一个——
don't have our masculinity to prove.
我们只是不需要证明男子气概。
so inculcated in the culture
男人被教育地以适应男权社会。
something different happen.
are like a renewable source of power.
女性友情就像是不断涌出的能量源泉。
about this subject.
这就是这个主题令人感兴趣的地方。
are just a hop to our sisterhood,
a very powerful force,
demographic in the world,
we can change the world.
我们就能够改变世界。
that we need to do --
the consumer standards.
need to consume less
buy things that are made locally,
that's grown locally.
that need to get off the grid.
independent from fossil fuels.
and those bad guys --
以及那些坏家伙——
将会回到石器时代。
without going back to the Stone Age.
just aren't quite there yet,
并且发展得很好。
energy and doing just fine.
wean ourselves from fossil fuel
back in the Stone Age,
to use renewable energy,
and not drill --
不去开采——
in the Alberta tar sands --
and more jobs and more well-being,
有更多的工作和人口,
going to lead the way.
to start a third-wave feminist movement
发起第三波女权主义运动,
women we may never meet,
也可能一直都见不到的女士们,
should be between equals
we had souls even, the Greeks.
just how limited Aristotle was.
这显示亚里士多德多么无知。
men do need women now.
the Equal Rights Amendment.
since the end of World War II
citizens of equal stature,
on how to do that.
为大家示范,
in different ways,
women can be friends --
(也仍然是我们的模范)。
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