Jane Fonda, the actress talks WISDOM.

Monster-in-law Fame, Jane Fonda, talks Wisdom; Lessons for young girls soon to be wedded.

• Dressed in cream, tailored trousers and patterned blouse - and showing off a tiny waist - her theme was the "empowerment of women", a theme that sits uncomfortably with her own personal experiences. In her autobiography, Fonda describes how she allowed her first husband, Roger Vadim, to bring other women to bed with them. "It never occurred to me to object," she says. An unhappy second marriage to Tom Hayden, the politician and radical activist, led to a third marriage with Ted Turner, the multi-millionaire founder of CNN, who was unfaithful within a month of their wedding. "Why do so many girls leave themselves at the door to be in a relationship with a man - preferably an alpha male?" Fonda, now 67 and a grandmother, asked an initially bemused audience of 5,000 50- to 60-year-olds at the WI's annual conference. "I was very much like that for 60 odd years and I don't want other girls and women to wait so long! I didn't have to be in any of those situations but I stayed because I did not think I was good enough to be on my own. "I was married three times - three wonderful men - and there was a time when I thought these men were so unlike my father (Henry Fonda) who didn't know how to be intimate with his family. "But what did these men have in common? None of them were capable of intimacy. Why is it that so many men are cut off, head from heart? These are my issues - very personal.