Marlo Thomas Quotes

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  There are two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better.

  Marlo Thomas

  Topics in Father

  Tags in People, World, Better

• Where will I be 5 years from now? Delight in not knowing. That’s one of the greatest things about life-its wonderful surprises.

  Marlo Thomas

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Sensitivity

• My mother was a strong-willed and opinionated woman – a Sicilian! – and if she didn’t like something, she’d let you know about it. So her undying support of her kids went a long way in proving to us that we were on the right path.

  Marlo Thomas

  Topics in Mother

  Tags in Opinionated, Support

• The rejection that we all take and the sadness and the aggravation and the loss of jobs and all of the things that we live through in our lives, without a sense of humor, I don’t know how people make it.

  Marlo Thomas

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Sadness, Sense

• When I look back at those pictures of my mother performing – and listen to her recordings – it makes me sad to think that all of that joy she found in her work came to an end. I wish she hadn’t had to make that sacrifice, even if it was for the benefit of my father and siblings and me.

  Marlo Thomas

  Topics in Sad

  Tags in Recordings

• I know George Burns was a very happy man.

  Marlo Thomas

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Happy

• I think in my case, I had no choice but to have a good sense of humor. I grew up with my dad, Danny Thomas, and George Burns and Bob Hope and Milton Berle and Sid Caesar and all those guys were at our house all the time and telling jokes and making each other laugh.

  Marlo Thomas

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Caesar, Grew

• When I was growing up, my mother was always a friend to my siblings and me (in addition to being all the other things a mom is), and I was always grateful for that because I knew she was someone I could talk to and joke with, and argue with and that nothing would ever harm that friendship.

  Marlo Thomas

  Topics in Uncategorized

• We’ve been taught to believe that actions speak louder than words. But I think words speak pretty loud all of our lives; we carry these words in our head.

  Marlo Thomas

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Think, Speak

• Never face facts; if you do you’ll never get up in the morning.

  Marlo Thomas

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Morning

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fame

• Living with these teenage boys allowed me to see how much their psyches were like their girl counterparts. They were more familiar to me than I would have thought.

  Marlo Thomas

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Like

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

  Marlo Thomas

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Time

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time

• It’s because it was at a time when women didn’t have any power. It was so unusual for a young woman in her 20s to have power that I seized the power but tried not to flaunt it.

  Marlo Thomas

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Time

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Think

• 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

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Think

• 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.

  Marlo Thomas

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Women

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

  Marlo Thomas

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Women

• The Golden Girls certainly proved that there was a large audience for a show about older women.

  Marlo Thomas

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Women

Marlo Thomas (30)

Birth:	21st November, 1937
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Activist, Actress, Producer

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