Feminist Quote by Marlo Thomas

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

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I know George Burns was a very happy man.

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“Steady as she goes”

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What I love about the theater is the work ethic. I grew up with it.

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Marriage is like a vacuum cleaner. You stick it to your ear and it sucks out all your energy and ambition.

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I realize now that I was a feminist and the minute I heard the word I certainly knew it meant me, but at that…

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Living with these teenage boys allowed me to see how much their psyches were like their girl counterparts. They were more familiar to me…

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I find that balancing my life with my work with the kids at St. Jude, working on books, working on my career as an…

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Laughter is important, not only because it makes us happy, it also has actual health benefits. And that's because laughter completely engages the body…

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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…

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

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There's no doubt about it... I was born a feminist.

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One woman is a pest and two women is a team, but three women or more is a coalition. If you can bring a…

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“Because human beings lived then in a world in which physical strength was the most important attribute for survival; the physically stronger person was more likely to lead. And men in general are physically stronger. (There are of course many exceptions.) Today, we live in a vastly diʃerent world. The person more qualiɹed to lead is not the physically stronger…

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