Marlo Thomas and Phil Donahue: 'I had vowed never to get married. My feeling was that marriage was an institution designed for one-and-a-half persons. With the "half" being the woman. I wanted no part of it. Then I went on this talk show ...
Also, a lot of things had changed in the world, including the idea that your marriage didn't have to fit into an old definition, and that you could design yours to be a roomier place for two whole people.
And so the wedding took place May 21st, 1980. My mother kept asking Phil, "How did you get her to do this?"'