BY LORRAINE DUFFY MERKL My 18-year-old daughter Meg has had many celebrity role models in her young life—from Dora the Explorer to Michelle Obama; and in between there have been people like Gwyneth Paltrow and Jessica Alba stepping out of their acting careers to become an Internet entrepreneur and head of a Fortune 500 company, respectively; the tennis powerhouse Williams sisters; and It Girls, Amy Schumer and Lena Dunham, who have brought feminism back into the national conversation. But I would not trade her experience (even if you threw in dewy skin) for my own, which had Lucille Ball at the forefront.
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