These days, bookstores are teeming with titles on how to parent. 

There are plenty of books advising you on how to get your kid to eat or sleep or get into college.

But what about some of life's bigger lessons? Like how to raise a child who will do well in the world? Be a leader? Be happy? Especially if that child is a girl?

Television executive Nina Tassler, along with writer Cynthia Littleton, recently published such a book. It's called "What I Told My Daughter: Lessons From Leaders on Raising the Next Generation of Empowered Women."

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The book is a collection of short essays written by all sorts of mothers— from Madeleine Albright and Ruth Bader Ginsburg to Pat Benatar and Whoopi Goldberg.

Tassler and one of the book's contributors, TV host and music manager Sharon Osbourne, joined Take Two to talk about some of the lessons they hope to pass on to their daughters.

Interview highlights:

Nina Tassler on her criteria for selecting the book's contributors

The first most important element was diversity. I wanted to have women who came from very diverse backgrounds. Not only in terms of their ethnicity, but it terms of their work orientation, their levels of success, did they work public sector private sector, were they in politics, were they in entertainment, where they in philanthropy, were they in academics. I wanted to make sure that we really ran the gamut in terms of representing different voices, different mothers, with different relationships with their daughters. 

Nina Tassler on what the book's contributors have in common

What I love is that what Sharon [Osbourne] describes is very much what Ruth Bader Ginsburg described about the work/life balance. That she didn't fit really into either world. And you know, decades later, people would ask her 'Have you had it all in your long lifetime?' and she said 'Yes, I have, just not at the same time.'

Whomever you are and whatever your relationship is to work, I think we all have suffered from being over hyphenated. You know, 'working-mom,' 'tiger-mom,' 'stay-at-home-mom'... how about 'mom'? You know, like Nancy Pelosi says, you don't have 'working-dads.' 

Sharon Osbourne on teaching her daughters about feminism

For me the first thing that comes in is that you want to be treated the same way as men. I am one for, a job that I do that a man does, I want to earn the same amount of money, I want the same respect. And Nina knows this inside out, more than me, but you know, when guys are tough they're great businessmen and when women are tough we're bitches. And I think it still very much exists in this day and age and I think it's something that I hope our daughters' generation will not have to deal with like we did.

Interview excerpts edited for length and clarity.