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 ThomasA feminist is a man or woman who already knows for a fact that men and women are qual and wants society to wake up to that fact, so the world can stop operating at half-strength.
Marlo ThomasPeople don't want to be bothered, if they're not being pressured to change. You have to push people. You have to be the agitator that makes the pearl.
Marlo ThomasI 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.
Marlo Thomas... 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.
Marlo Thomas