Marlo Thomas
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"Margaret Julia" ""Marlo"" "Thomas" is an American actress, producer, and social activist known for starring on the sitcom That Girl (1966–1971) and her award-winning feminist children's franchise, Free to Be... You and Me. For her work in television, she has received four Emmys, a Golden Globe, the George Foster Peabody Award and has been inducted into the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame. She has also received a Grammy award for her children’s album Thanks & Giving All Year Long.

Thomas serves as National Outreach Director for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, which was founded by her father, Danny Thomas, in 1962. She created the Thanks & Giving campaign in 2004 to support the hospital.

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

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

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.

I wish someone would have told me that, just because I'm a girl, I don't have to get married.

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.

Never face facts; if you do, you'll never get up in the morning.

If it's one thing we learned from the first book, it's that you don't have to be a prizefighter, or a world-renowned architect, or a concert violinist to have been affected by the power of words.

My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better.