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.”

“I've always been a champion of kids pursuing their dreams. But sometimes in life, extraordinary circumstances may force us to temporarily put our dreams on hold. The most important thing is to never lose sight of that dream, no matter what punches life may throw in our way.”

“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.”

“You know, there's endorphins in laughter, as there are endorphins in running in the park.”

“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.”

“We are a research center and treatment facility all under one roof.”

“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.”

“What the results are telling them is that the most money is spent in volume by young people. They also see young people as the consumers of tomorrow and are trying to capture their attention from their competitors.”

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

“One of the best parts of Thanksgiving for me is re-watching some of the classic holiday blunders that have been depicted on television. I remember laughing uncontrollably on the set of 'That Girl' back in 1967 when we shot the episode, 'Thanksgiving Comes But Once A Year, Hopefully' during our second season.”

“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.”

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

“So I still seized the power, but I felt that if I officially made myself the boss, in black and white, it would be too intimidating for the other producers and the other men who worked on the show. In other words, I had the power, but I gave them the title.”

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

“One of the many reasons I love living in New York is that we get a front row seat to the innumerable thrills that take place here - from conventions and awards shows, to parades and U.N. assemblies. But my favorite New York tradition is the annual New Year's Eve ball-drop on Times Square.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Women should know that they don't have to hang on to an old dream that has stopped nurturing them - that there is always time to start a new dream.”

“Nothing is either all masculine or all feminine except having sex.”

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