Fame lost its appeal for me when I went... by Marlo Thomas | We Heart Quotes

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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.

- Marlo Thomas

Other quotes by Marlo Thomas

Life

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

- Marlo Thomas

Family Being

In that I found being able to talk to my family about my feelings, praying for strength and realizing that our lives have a deep purpose and the journey of our lives is to find out what that is and express it, was the only way I could have gotten through it.

- Marlo Thomas

Now Time

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.

- Marlo Thomas

Success

As much success came to him, my father stayed true to his promise. He built the hospital to help the most helpless children with catastrophic illnesses.

- Marlo Thomas

Thought

Living with these teenage boys allowed me to see how much their psyches were like their girl counterparts. They were more familiar to me than I would have thought.

- Marlo Thomas

Work

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

- Marlo Thomas

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