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Marianne Williamson
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American author and politician
OverviewAI-generated
Marianne Williamson is an author and spiritual thought leader born on July 8, 1952. She has one child and maintains an official website. Her literary output includes 171 works, with notable titles such as *Be-ḥazarah la-ahavah*, *The Spirit of Success*, *Un retour à l'amour*, *Guérir l'âme de l'Amérique*, and *Once Upon a Rose*. Crossref data indicates she has five works listed in that database.
Williamson has expressed views on social issues, stating that each person has a unique part to play in the healing of the world and that candidate suppression is a form of voter suppression. She has 2,809,559 social media followers. On Last.fm, her music has been played 14,689 times by 1,009 listeners. Her encyclopedia entry is referenced by 675 other articles.
Synthesized by Vinony from 17 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, Wikiquote, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1952
- Works
- 171
Top works
- Be-ḥazarah la-ahavah
- The Spirit of Success
- Un retour à l'amour
- Guérir l'âme de l'Amérique
- Once Upon a Rose
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1,009
- Total plays
- 14,689
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Marianne+Williamson">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,903x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,794x
- Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults
· 1998 · cited 15,218x
- Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis
· 2022 · cited 13,914x
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,704x
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Quotes
- “Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world.”
- “The underlying cause has to do with deep, deep, deep realms of racial injustice, both in our criminal justice system and in our economic system... The Democratic Party should be on the side of reparations for slavery for this very reason... I do not believe that the average American is a racist, but the average American is woefully undereducated about the history of race in the United States.”
- “Candidate suppression is a form of voter suppression.”
- “A miracle worker is an artist of the soul. There’s no higher art than living a good life. An artist informs the world of what’s available behind the masks we all wear. That’s what we’re all here to do. The reason so many of us are obsessed with becoming stars is because we’re not yet starring in our own lives. The cosmic spotlight isn’t pointed at you; it radiates from within you.”
- “If we wait for the world’s permission to shine, we will never receive it. The ego doesn’t give that permission. Only God does, and He has already done so. He has sent you here as His personal representative and is asking you to channel His love into the world. Are you waiting for a more important job? There isn’t one.”
- “How could Leonardo da Vinci not have painted? How could Shakespeare not have written? In Letters to a Young Poet, Rilke tells a young writer to write only if he has to. We are to do what there is a deep psychological and emotional imperative for us to do. That’s our point of power, the source of our brilliance. Our power is not rationally or willfully called forth. It’s a divine dispensation, an act of grace.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Born
- Marianne Deborah Williamson , ( 1952-07-08 ) July 8, 1952 (age 73) , Houston, Texas , U.S.
- Education
- Pomona College
- Occupations
- Author teacher politician activist
- Political party
- Democratic
- Website
- Marianne Williamson
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Deborah
- Family name
- Williamson
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Houston
- Occupation
- philanthropist
- Political party
- Democratic Party (United States)
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Instrument
- voice
- Official website
- marianne.com
- Image
- Marianne Williamson November 2019 (1).jpg
- Number of children
- 1
Show 6 more facts
- date of birth
- 1952-07-08
- Commons category
- Marianne Williamson
- influenced by
- Louise Hay
- interested in
- metaphysics
- social media followers
- 2764271
- affiliation string
- and Spiritual Thought Leader
Sources (9)
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Marianne Deborah Williamson (born July 8, 1952) is an American self-help author, speaker, and political activist. She began her professional career as a spiritual leader of the Church of Today, a Unity Church in Warren, Michigan. Williamson has written several self-help books, including A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles in 1992, which became a New York Times Best Seller. She rose to prominence through frequent appearances on Oprah Winfrey's show, and becoming known as her "spiritual advisor".
Williamson ran unsuccessfully as an independent for California's 33rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives in 2014, finishing fourth with 13.2% of the vote. She ran for the Democratic nomination for president in 2020, eventually dropping out and endorsing Bernie Sanders. She ran for president again in 2024, challenging incumbent President Joe Biden. After having suspended and restarted her campaign, Williamson ended her longshot White House bid in July 2024. She unsuccessfully campaigned for the position of DNC chair in 2025.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Marianne Williamson” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.