Author Archive: Marlene Wagman-Geller

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I’ll Rise

I’ll Rise

In 1970, Joni Mitchell lamented in “Big Yellow Taxi,” “No, no, no/Don’t it always seem to go/That you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone…” The song served as a red flag; in an instant, what we hold dear could assume the quality of mist and dissipate. The lyrics are apropos to the pandemic […]

May 25, 2020 | By | Reply More
Let’s Hear It for the Girls!

Let’s Hear It for the Girls!

No matter how near we are to our biblically allotted three score years and ten, we always remember our milestone firsts: first kiss, first car, first horizontal episode. Mothers are likewise big on firsts: first word their child spoke, first step, first lost tooth. These events constitute the magical moments, forever tucked away in the […]

June 14, 2019 | By | Reply More
Failure Is Impossible

Failure Is Impossible

My book, Women Who Launch: Women Who Shattered Glass Ceilings, provides a well-deserved shout-out to the intrepid women who chafed against the established paradigm that the fairer sex was only meant to be their husband’s eye candy. These fabulous femmes left their imprints on society and thereby made great strides in levelling the gender field.  […]

April 8, 2019 | By | Reply More
 Behind Every Great Man: The Forgotten Women Behind the World’s Famous and Infamous

 Behind Every Great Man: The Forgotten Women Behind the World’s Famous and Infamous

“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.” Virginia Woolf The idea for Behind Every Great Man was the result of serendipity-and it arrived through the unlikely person of former First Lady Laura Bush. In a White House roast, she likened herself to a character from Desperate Housewives. “I am married to the president of […]

February 17, 2017 | By | Reply More