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Marianne Schnall is a widely published writer and interviewer. She is also the founder and executive director of the women's website and non-profit organization Feminist.com, and cofounder of EcoMall.com, a website promoting environmentally-friendly living. Marianne's writings and interviews have been featured in national publications such as O, The Oprah Magazine, Glamour, In Style, CNN.com, EW.com, the Women's Media Center, Psychology Today, and many others. Marianne is a featured blogger at The Huffington Post and a regular contributor to the nationally syndicated NPR radio show, 51% The Women’s Perspective.

Marianne is the author of Daring to Be Ourselves: Influential Women Share Insights on Courage, Happiness and Finding Your Own Voice based on her interviews with a variety of well-known women.

Through her writings, interviews and websites, Marianne strives to raise awareness and inspire activism around important issues and causes.

Blog Entries by Marianne Schnall

Exclusive Interview With Maya Angelou on Her New Book, Mom & Me & Mom

(3) Comments | Posted May 10, 2013 | 9:23 AM

Legendary poet, writer and performer Dr. Maya Angelou has shared details of her extraordinary life in her many best-selling autobiographies, including I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. In her latest book, Mom & Me & Mom, she shares the story of the most influential...

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Influential Women Share Advice on Staying Calm and Centered in Hectic Times

(1) Comments | Posted May 9, 2013 | 12:09 PM

In today's modern world, we sometimes feel like a hamster on a wheel, going round and round through the non-stop responsibilities that run our lives. And then, when we stop, we are often tempted to spend our breaks "relaxing" on our electronics, taking in the latest techno-reality: news, tweets, texts,...

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Interview with Eve Ensler: In The Body of the World

(2) Comments | Posted April 29, 2013 | 4:33 PM

Playwright, author and activist Eve Ensler is not someone who appears to get easily daunted by large challenges. After all, only just a few months ago, Eve and her organization V-Day launched One Billion Rising, which became the largest global action campaign in history aimed at...

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Exclusive: Patrick Stewart Calls on Men to End Violence Against Women

(230) Comments | Posted March 19, 2013 | 10:21 AM

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Many of us remember Sir Patrick Stewart on Star Trek: The Next Generation as the heroic Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the Starship Enterprise whose mission was to explore the galaxies. In real life, the dynamic 72-year-old acclaimed actor and activist has taken on his...

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Exclusive: Melinda Gates on Family Planning and Changing the World

(42) Comments | Posted November 28, 2012 | 8:37 AM

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Melinda Gates at London Summit on Family Planning


Controversy over reproductive rights has been at the forefront of our national conversation, but philanthropist Melinda Gates would like to take the controversy out and transform the narrative into a global one through education...

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Marianne Williamson on Consciousness, Women and Politics

(9) Comments | Posted November 9, 2012 | 1:35 PM

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Some of us may be feeling a collective national hangover after a divisive and emotionally exhausting election season. In the aftermath, it seems a fertile time for reflection and conversation, and hopefully, change. On Election Day eve, I was fortunate to have an illuminating...

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Influential Women Speak Out on the Election

(140) Comments | Posted October 28, 2012 | 11:10 PM

Featuring remarks from Isabel Allende, Joan Blades, Martha Burk, Eve Ensler, Gloria Feldt, Kim Gandy, Kirsten Gillibrand, Carol Jenkins, Shelby Knox, Elizabeth Lesser, Lisa Ling, Courtney Martin, Pat Mitchell, Robin Morgan, Samhita Mukhopadhyay, Kathy Najimy, Nancy Pelosi, Ai-Jen Poo, Amy Richards, Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, Gloria Steinem, Barbra Streisand, Loung Ung, Rebecca...

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Exclusive: Interview With Oprah About Her School for Girls

(83) Comments | Posted October 12, 2012 | 10:33 AM

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Oprah Winfrey has celebrated many impressive milestones and accomplishments in her lifetime as a media icon as well as as a humanitarian and philanthropist. But one of the achievements that is clearly closest to her heart is founding the Oprah...

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Tony Robbins Sets the Record Straight About Fire Walk 'Controversy'

(32) Comments | Posted July 31, 2012 | 1:35 PM

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A few months ago, I was introduced to the work of best-selling author and life coach Tony Robbins while writing about Oprah's 5,000-person live "Lifeclass" at Radio City Music Hall for OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network. Robbins was appearing as...
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Reflections On Aging: Melissa Etheridge, Goldie Hawn, Alice Walker And Others

(10) Comments | Posted June 4, 2012 | 5:44 PM

Featuring insights from Madeleine Albright, Melissa Etheridge, Jane Fonda, Jane Goodall, Goldie Hawn, Elizabeth Lesser, Pat Mitchell, Gloria Steinem and Alice Walker

The other day, someone close to me complimented me on a photograph I was in by enthusiastically raving about how young the photo made me look. My first...

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Tough Talk From Environmental Activist Dr. Helen Caldicott

(59) Comments | Posted May 9, 2012 | 9:23 AM

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Dr. Helen Caldicott has passionately devoted the last 40 years to educating the global community about the inherent risks and dangers of nuclear energy and weapons and the critical changes needed to restore and help save our embattled Earth. The Australian-born medical doctor (a...

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An In-depth Interview With Life Coach Tony Robbins

(8) Comments | Posted April 29, 2012 | 9:58 AM

When I recently met author, strategist and coach Tony Robbins backstage at a taping of Oprah Winfrey's ground-breaking series Lifeclass, the first thing I was struck by was his sheer size. He is a somewhat startling six-feet-seven, yet he comes across like a loving, gentle giant, and when...

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Exclusive Conversation Between Oprah Winfrey and Deepak Chopra

(4) Comments | Posted April 25, 2012 | 8:31 AM

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When I recently attended the taping of Oprah's Lifeclass at Radio City Music Hall in which Deepak Chopra served as guest teacher, you could feel the mutual respect, affection and friendship between the two trailblazing thought leaders (during the show...

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Behind-the-Scenes At Oprah's Lifeclass With Tony Robbins And Deepak Chopra

(2) Comments | Posted April 8, 2012 | 5:20 PM

It's not every day Radio City Music Hall temporarily closes down its men's bathroom. But that's exactly what happened when Oprah Winfrey decided to film two episodes of her Lifeclass series at the famous theater in New York City. My adventure started when I got the email from...

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Ending Child Marriage: Insights From Desmond Tutu And Mary Robinson

(83) Comments | Posted February 6, 2012 | 8:11 AM

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Child marriage is one of the most shocking and disturbing practices facing girls around the world today. Every year, ten million girls are forcibly married before the age of eighteen, many as young as twelve or thirteen years...

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Reflections on Occupy Wall Street From Nancy Pelosi, Alice Walker, Arianna Huffington & Others

(45) Comments | Posted January 5, 2012 | 10:23 AM

At a holiday dinner with family, the conversation turned to the Occupy Wall Street movement. My mother made a comment about how the spirit of the movement had seemed to have somewhat come and passed, the protests seemingly swept away by other distractions and the chill of winter. I found...

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Miss Representation: An Interview with Writer & Director Jennifer Siebel Newsom

(4) Comments | Posted October 20, 2011 | 9:30 AM

Featuring an interview with Writer/Director Jennifer Siebel Newsom and exclusive remarks from Barbara J. Berg, M. Gigi Durham, Caroline Heldman, Jean Kilbourne, Jennifer Lawless, Nancy Pelosi, Jennifer L. Pozner and Marie Wilson


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When I first heard about the film Miss...

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Senator Gillibrand's Call to Action

(0) Comments | Posted October 11, 2011 | 4:58 PM


Like the national appeal to Rosie the Riveter during World War II, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York is asking women to move "Off the Sidelines" to the center of decision making and power in the United States.

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'Know Your Power And Be Ready": An Exclusive Interview With Nancy Pelosi

(6) Comments | Posted September 21, 2011 | 10:08 AM

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This past weekend, I attended Arianna Huffington, Donna Karan and Sarah Brown's second-annual WIE Symposium (Women: Inspiration & Enterprise), an event which set out to explore the central theme of "What it means to be a woman now" through a...

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Exclusive Interview With Gloria Steinem: In Her Own Words

(478) Comments | Posted August 12, 2011 | 3:09 PM

When you think of the world's most famous feminist, who do you think of? Among that small group of special women, you can't help but think of Gloria Steinem, the renowned activist and best-selling author, who co-founded Ms. Magazine in 1972, which has become a landmark in both...

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