"In the 1960s we were fighting to be recognized as equals in the marketplace, in marriage, in education and on the playing field. It was a very exciting, rebellious time."
― Marlo Thomas
Topic(s):
Hope
More From Marlo Thomas
- "Never face facts; if you do you’ll never get up in the morning."
- "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."
- "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."
More In Hope
- "Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions."― George Santayana
- "The moment that changed me for ever was the moment my first child was born. I was happy, filled with hope, and thought, ‘Now I understand the whole point of work, of life, of love.’"― Paul Theroux
- "The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy."― Dietrich Bonhoeffer