114 Quotes by 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.

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.

Small steps can help people make big changes to achieve what they really desire. That wish isn’t going to go anywhere unless you do something about it. Every day, just do one thing. At the end of six months, you’ll be somewhere.

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 and releases the mind. It connects us to others, and that in itself has a healing effect.

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.

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.

It’s important to think big, but you’ve got to work small.

People 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.

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