Marlene Wagman-Geller, Author at Women Writers, Women's Books http://booksbywomen.org/author/wagmangeller/ Wed, 27 May 2020 10:06:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 I’ll Rise https://booksbywomen.org/ill-rise/ https://booksbywomen.org/ill-rise/#respond Mon, 25 May 2020 04:12:33 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=31251 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 […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/ill-rise/feed/ 0 31251 Let’s Hear It for the Girls! https://booksbywomen.org/lets-hear-it-for-the-girls-by-marlene-wagman-geller/ https://booksbywomen.org/lets-hear-it-for-the-girls-by-marlene-wagman-geller/#respond Fri, 14 Jun 2019 10:10:01 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=26403 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 […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/lets-hear-it-for-the-girls-by-marlene-wagman-geller/feed/ 0 26403 Failure Is Impossible https://booksbywomen.org/failure-is-impossible-by-marlene-wagman-geller/ https://booksbywomen.org/failure-is-impossible-by-marlene-wagman-geller/#respond Mon, 08 Apr 2019 09:52:34 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=26377 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.  […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/failure-is-impossible-by-marlene-wagman-geller/feed/ 0 26377  Behind Every Great Man: The Forgotten Women Behind the World’s Famous and Infamous https://booksbywomen.org/behind-every-great-man-the-forgotten-women-behind-the-worlds-famous-and-infamous-by-marlene-wagman-geller/ https://booksbywomen.org/behind-every-great-man-the-forgotten-women-behind-the-worlds-famous-and-infamous-by-marlene-wagman-geller/#respond Fri, 17 Feb 2017 05:53:12 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=17795 “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 […]

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