Marilyn Murray Willison

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    • One Woman, Four Decades, Eight Wishes: A Journalist’s Memoir of Challenge, Change and Growth
    • The Self Empowered Woman : 17 Characteristics of High Achievers
    • Diary of a Divorced Mother
    • The Self Confidence Trick
    • When Your Life Includes a Wheelchair
    • Time Enough For Love
    • The Great Restaurants of California
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    • Pretty White Up-and-Down House
    • Kirk Douglas – FOREVER SPARTACUS
    • Audrey Hepburn – THE DEVINE MISS HEPBURN
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One Woman, Four Decades, Eight Wishes: A Journalist’s Memoir of Challenge, Change and Growth

A Baby Boomer's relevant memoir that reviews major life events—from an unusual childhood, UCLA, career success as a London-based international journalist, thorny relationship issues, to discovering ways of accepting the harsh realities of living with … [Read More]

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244: The Self-Empowered Woman: Brenda Milner

Dear Followers, As many of you know, Tony (which, of course, means me too) is wrestling with some fairly serious health problems right now. Mildly overwhelmed with hospital/doctor/medications/etc., I thought that this might be the perfect time for me to send out a short blog about a gifted medical researcher—unique for both her gender and […]

243: The Self-Empowered Woman: Cassie De Pecol

Dear Followers, Today I’d like to introduce you to a young woman who has really captured my attention. Cassie De Pecol recently became the fastest person—and first documented female—to travel to every single one of the world’s 196 sovereign nations. She completed her voyage in February of this year, after 18 months and 26 days […]

242: The Self-Empowered Woman: Ona Judge

Dear Followers, Hard as it is to believe today, the sad truth is that most of our Founding Fathers were slaveholders.  Today I’d like to introduce you to an amazing woman who gained her freedom by escaping from her owner—Mrs. George Washington. Ona Judge (she was also known as Oney) was born in 1773, and […]

241: The Self-Empowered Woman: Maria Sibylla Merian

Dear Followers, I love stories about brave women who will do anything to follow their passion. So when I learned about Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717), I wanted to share this amazing story of a Self-Empowered Woman from centuries ago. She was a descendant of the Swiss Merian family, who were founders of one of Europe’s […]

240: The Self-Empowered Woman: Clare Hollingworth

Dear Followers, Last Wednesday, the first female war correspondent died in Hong Kong at the age of 105. Today, journalism is—for the most part—a relatively gender-free career, but it wasn’t always that way. Hollingworth, the most fearless of British women war writers, was born on October 10 th , 1911 in central England. Historians believe that the seeds […]

About The Author

Former Health and Fitness Editor for the Los Angeles Times syndicate, Marilyn Murray Willison is a six-time author, respected international journalist, and speaker. Her byline has appeared in The Sunday Times of London, The Daily Mail, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Miami Herald, Town and County, Allure and Ladies Home Journal , among others. Her expertise ranges from book reviews, fashion trends, travel articles and high profile celebrity interviews. Read More…

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