Jane Fonda

Better late then never for the 85-year-old actress, who stood up to patriarchy at 60-years-old and became an “embodied feminist”.

In a personal essay for Lenny Letter, Jane was candid about the fact she suffered from an eating disorder in hear early years trying to live up to the society’s “perfect” standard for women where she sought validation from men instead of validating herself.

She said: "I needed to heal the wounds patriarchy had dealt me.

"I worry that the word patriarchy makes people's eyes glaze over with the assumption that it means 'Men are bad, and we need to change to a matriarchy,'' Fonda wrote. "But this is not about replacing one '-archy' with another, it's about transforming social and cultural norms and institutions so that power, violence, and greed are not the primary operating principles. It's not about moving from patriarchy to matriarchy, but from patriarchy to democracy. Feminism means real democracy."