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The Love Goddess | Today 11:15 am

Your Sexual Past: Share or Shush?

Please, mortal lovers, do not confuse discreet with deceit. Introducing The Love Goddess, wowOwow’s spirit of steaminess, with answers to your most burning questions

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Question of the Day | 08/21/2008 12:00 am

What one book must all young women read before they turn 21?

Joan Ganz Cooney and Liz Smith reveal the major literary works that all young women must read before their 21st birthdays

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Joan Ganz Cooney | 08/21/2008 12:00 am

Why Young Women Need Edith Wharton

I would never recommend just one book for any young person but I would tell her that the novels of …

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Liz Smith | 08/21/2008 12:00 am

What the West Is Really All About

Although one hopes she’d have read too many books to count already, the one book to check out is …

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Cynthia McFadden | 06/25/2008 12:00 am

Cynthia McFadden Won't Sell Out

Fred W. Friendly told me never to take a job for the money …

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Joan Juliet Buck | 06/13/2008 12:00 am

Joan Juliet Buck: Posture? Easy

Stand up straight and …

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Marlo Thomas | 06/13/2008 12:00 am

Danny Thomas to Daughter Marlo: 'Run Your Own Race, Baby'

Marlo Thomas’s father was out of the ordinary, and the advice that he shared with her? Invaluable …

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Candice Bergen | 06/13/2008 12:00 am

Candice Bergen's Dad: Don't Rely on Your Looks

My father, bless him, always said, "Candy, it’s the beautiful women who commit suicide …

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Judith Martin | 06/13/2008 12:00 am

How to Travel Well With Judith Martin's Dad

My father was good at travel because of a lesson he taught by example …

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Cynthia McFadden | 06/13/2008 12:00 am

Cynthia McFadden's Dad: Anyone Can Have a Job They Don't Like ...

I was the first in my family to be able to go to college. On the day I graduated from law school, my very proud father …

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Mary Wells | 06/13/2008 12:00 am

What Mary Wells Hated to Hear

My father told me, when I was 12, that when I was grown up I would be pretty …

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Question of the Day | 06/13/2008 12:00 am

What is the best advice your dad ever gave you?

For Candice Bergen and Mary Wells, it was advice on vanity. For Judith Martin, it was travel. Cynthia McFadden’s and Joan Cooney’s dads advised them on career, Joan Juliet Buck’s on posture, and Liz Smith’s dad’s advice? ‘Knock their brains out!’

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Liz Smith | 06/13/2008 12:00 am

Liz Smith's Father Told Her Not to Fight Fair

My father was very feisty and temperamental. He was little, 5’6”, so he had to scrap his way through life …

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Joan Ganz Cooney | 06/13/2008 12:00 am

Joan Cooney: I Didn't Have Any Acting Talent

The best piece of advice my father ever gave me was not to become …

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Question of the Day | 04/14/2008 12:00 am

What advice would you give to a 21-year-old woman?

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Three Women and a Baby, by Diane Clehane

After losing her mother, ‘wOw Friend’ Diane Clehane gains a daughter … and the courage to raise her

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Today 12:00 am

Who or what do you think you were in a past life?

I believe that every atom in my body has been recycled a vast number of times and probably, during the recycling, I was part of the interplanetary dust, a swirling nova, a bubbling primordial soup, a

— Sam Mirando

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