Marlo Thomas
Marlo Thomas
Margaret Julia "Marlo" Thomasis an American actress, producer, and social activist known for starring on the sitcom That Girland her award-winning feminist children's franchise, Free to Be... You and Me...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionStage Actress
Date of Birth21 November 1937
CityDetroit, MI
CountryUnited States of America
equality equally man treated
One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to man, but that you treat yourself equally the way you treat a man
eggs involved life work
I try to always keep myself involved in things in life other than just my work so that I don't always have all my eggs in one basket.
women equality feminist
One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.
team two people
One woman is a pest and two women is a team, but three women or more is a coalition. If you can bring a lot of people together as a coalition, you can get a lot changed.
fulfilling ifs
You can't be happy, if you're not free and you're not fulfilling yourself.
years two track
It's fascinating for us women to begin looking at our lives in five-year plans. It really does help you keep on track. If that's too hard, start with a two-year plan.
commitment fighting doctors
As someone who has spent many years marveling at the brilliant and painstaking work of the doctors, scientists and researchers at St. Jude, I can attest firsthand to the bone-deep commitment these men and women have made in their fight against disease. They are at it around the clock - every hour of the day, every day of the year.
growing-up people important
It's so important to raise people to grow up to be who they are and not be forced to be who they're not. What an awful thing to do to people - it's like being in prison.
years knowing optimism
Where will I be five years from now? I delight in not knowing. That's one of the greatest things about life its wonderful surprises.
rejection wave amount
In my work, there's a tremendous amount of rejection and waves of fertile and fallow times.
ambition ears sticks
Marriage is like a vacuum cleaner. You stick it to your ear and it sucks out all your energy and ambition.
husband men thinking
[On husband Phil Donahue:] The man does not know the meaning of the word tidy. He asked me one day, 'Where are my shoes?' So I asked him, 'Where are my shoes?' I don't know what it is about men. They think that women have radar attached to our uteruses.
punishment numbers safety
... any woman who accepts aloneness as the natural by-product of success is accepting a punishment for a crime she didn't commit. And she is not acknowledging one of the most precious lessons of the women's movement, the lessons of community ... We may not able to tell women that there is safety in freedom. But we certainly can say, with absolute certainty, that for free women, the only safety is in numbers.
blow parent losing
Losing my parents was probably the hardest and deepest blow from which I've had to recover.