inspirational women
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We Chat With Olympic Gold Medal Winner, Kaitlyn Farrington
Oh yes, we fan girled.
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Behind the Documentary: Pussy Riot and their Punk Prayer
We spoke with Maxim Pozdorovkin, the director of the Oscar short listed documentary, Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer about the nation-dividing protest that landed its members in prison and why Pussy Riots' actions are significant to women everywhere.
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Sheryl Sandberg is Now One of the Youngest Billionaires
No longer just a boy's club.
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Meet the Former Philadelphia Eagles Cheerleader Turned Army Lieutenant
Two tours of Afghanistan later, former Philadelphia Eagles cheerleader returns home.
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Kate Bolduan: Background Check
Kate Bolduan, the 30-year-old cohost of CNN's New Day, shares her predawn routine, best career advice, and the carb she just can't quit
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Put Young Girls at the Center of Development
Christy Turlington Burns and Monique Villa delves into developing young women leaders in honor of the UN's International Day of the Girl Child on October 11. By Christy Turlington Burns, Founder of Every Mother Counts; Monique Villa, Thomson Reuters Foundation CEO.
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Malala Yousafzai's Most Inspirational Quotes
Inspirational quotes that prove why Malala is a strong contender for the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize.
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Malala's Mentor
Behind every great young woman is another great woman. Shiza Shahid is the Pakistani teen activist's right hand.
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How I Fled a Life of Polygamy
Married at 19 to the 85-year-old Prophet of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Rebecca Musser thought she was free after his death seven years later—until she was told she must remarry. So she escaped from her faith, family, and the only way of life she had ever known.
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Pretty Is As Pretty Does
After writer Jennifer Tress' husband cheated on her (and blamed it on her looks!), she started a new lifenow she's changing other women's lives, too.
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Plan of Attack: Sexual Assault in the Military
Women in Congress go to battle over rampant sexual assault in the military.
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Mighty Quinn
Christine Quinn wants to make history—as New York City's first female and first openly gay mayor. And now the colorful, take-no-prisoners pol is opening up in a revealing new memoir.
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The Blogger vs. The Dictator
She's been called a liar, a traitor, a spy, and a hero. Cuban dissident Yoani Sánchez first caught the world's attention with — what else? — a blog.
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Jessica Buchanan: Kidnapped!
On October 25, 2011, 32-year-old aid worker Jessica Buchanan and a Danish colleague were ambushed en route from a land mine awareness training program in southern Somalia and taken by pirates who had moved their ransom schemes from sea to land. Their price? $45 million. Here, she recounts the harrowing abduction that led to 93 days in captivity and a dramatic rescue by the elite U.S. Navy SEAL Team Six. Join our Google Hangout with Jessica on Wednesday, May 15 at 11:30 a.m. EST at plus.google.com/+marieclaire. Plus, submit your questions using #MCJB — they could be answered live!
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Queens of the Hill
Connections are currency in the nation's capital. So if you want to get in with D.C. power players, start with these in-the-know women.
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Risky Business
Think your workday is stressful? Imagine leaping from 10 stories, hand-feeding sharks, or dismantling bombs. For these professional badasses, danger is just part of the job description.
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Alyssa Mastromonaco: The White House Gatekeeper
Of the many players working behind the scenes for the president, few wield as much quiet power as Alyssa Mastromonaco, 37, the White House deputy chief of staff for operations — and the woman who sits some 15 feet away from him.
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Theresia Gouw: Silicon Valley Big Shot
Big shots in Silicon Valley either launch billion-dollar companies or, as in the case of venture capitalist Theresia Gouw of Accel Partners, invest in them. (She was instrumental in her firm's early funding of Facebook — the most lucrative tech investment ever.) MC caught up with Gouw to find out her secrets for spotting a winner — and how to become one.
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The New Change Agents
Meet the next generation of social activists — young, passionate, and powered by Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Tumblr, and you.
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My Sister's Keeper
What happens when you lose an identical twin? Christa Parravani was 28 when her sister, Cara, died. Odds put her chances of meeting the same fate at 50 percent, and she started down a self-destructive path — until writing their story set her free.
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Falling Toward Grace
Six years ago, a parachuting accident left extreme-sports daredevil Karina Hollekim near dead. Doctors said she'd never walk again, that her life as she knew it was over. But in the grueling years that followed, Hollekim had an epiphany: What if losing everything was the best thing that had ever happened to her?
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Is This Really Goodbye?
Much has been said of Hillary Clinton (and little spared) during her two decades in the public eye. Now, as she prepares to step down as secretary of state, the most accomplished and, arguably, misunderstood woman in recent history insists she's done with public life for good. Ayelet Waldman joins Clinton on a tour of duty in Africa to find out if she means it.
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Out of the Box
Writer Jodi Jill tells her extraordinary story of being raised in a 10-by-20 storage unit, cut off from society and denied school — and how she finally found the strength to change her life.
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Army Girl
In her debut novel, The People of Forever Are Not Afraid, Shani Boianjiu gives an inside glimpse at what it's like to come-of-age in the Israeli Defense Forces.
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Stranded
It was supposed to be easy, a brisk 30-minute hike on a pristine summer day. But a wrong turn led one woman on a brutal quest for survival. A year later, she shares her harrowing story.
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Sandra Fluke: "Women are Not Going to be Silenced"
First, the Georgetown University law student was shut out of a congressional hearing on insurance coverage for contraception. Then, she was called a "slut" by Rush Limbaugh. Now, she talks to MC about being the subject of a national political firestorm—and whether she'll run for office someday. For more on the contraception debate, read "Why is Birth Control A Big Deal Again?"
