Marlo Thomas

I think loss of loved ones is the hardest blow in life. 

Marlo Thomas

Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door. 

Marlo Thomas 

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. 

Marlo Thomas 

A man has to be Joe McCarthy to be called ruthless. All a woman has to do is put you on hold. 

Marlo Thomas 

As much success came to him, my father stayed true to his promise. He built the hospital to help the most helpless children with catastrophic illnesses. 

Marlo Thomas 

I find that balancing my life with my work with the kids at St. Jude, working on books, working on my career as an actor and taking time out for my husband and family help to cushion a lot of the blows. 

Marlo Thomas 

I realize now that I was a feminist and the minute I heard the word I certainly knew it meant me, but at that time I don't think we had the label yet. But there's no doubt about it that I was born a feminist. 

Marlo Thomas 

In the 1960s we were fighting to be recognized as equals in the marketplace, in marriage, in education and on the playing field. It was a very exciting, rebellious time. 

Marlo Thomas 

In my work, there's a tremendous amount of rejection and waves of fertile and fallow times. 

Marlo Thomas 

In that I found being able to talk to my family about my feelings, praying for strength and realizing that our lives have a deep purpose and the journey of our lives is to find out what that is and express it, was the only way I could have gotten through it. 

Marlo Thomas