In her decades-long career as an actress, an entertainer, a writer, and an activist, Marlo Thomas Has been all about empowering – starting with empowering girls and young women when she starred in “That Girl.” That was one of the first TV shows to feature a single woman living and supporting herself.
Of course that was just one of the dozens of professional roles Marlo Thomas has played.
You may have a copy of one of her “Free To Be, You And Me” books.
Thomas has embraced many feminist causes over the years, working alongside figures such as Gloria Steinem.
And in 2014 she wrote a book aimed at the older woman. Especially the older woman reinventing her life after some major life turning point. That book was called It Ain’t Over . . .Till It’s Over.
She and I talked about the book at an event she was holding at a Baltimore Library.
So here now, from 2014, Marlo Thomas.
Marlo Thomas is 88 now. She is National Outreach Director for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.