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.
fulfilling ifs
You can't be happy, if you're not free and you're not fulfilling yourself.
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.
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.
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.
firefighter choices needs
Women have to make a living. We don't live in a wealthy world where we even have a choice. We're losing our choice of whether or not we need to work. If we want to work, we obviously should work and have that choice, but a lot of women can't even get to the word "want." They need to work. And it's great to see women who needed to work and found a way to become a firefighter or a steel worker. That, to me, is very exciting.
growing-up thinking way
I think that there's got to be a comic gene in some way, but it's so much about it is how you grow up.
nature lying gay
I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in one's nature. The choice is whether one expresses one's nature truthfully or spends the rest of one's life lying about it.
sympathy loss thinking
I think loss of loved ones is the hardest blow in life.
christmas children memories
Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Our many different cultures notwithstanding, there's something about the holidays that makes the planet communal. Even nations that do not celebrate Christmas can't help but be caught up in the collective spirit of their neighbors, as twinkling lights dot the landscape and carols fill the air. It's an inspiring time of the year.