Helen Gurley Brown
Helen Gurley Brown
Helen Gurley Brown was an American author, publisher, and businesswoman. She was the editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine for 32 years...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth18 February 1922
CityGreen Forest, AR
CountryUnited States of America
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Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.
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You can have your titular recognition. I'll take money and power.
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Feeling insecure is good for you. It forces you to do something better, drives you to use all your talents.
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Now it's somewhat easier for a woman to be a film producer or something like that if she wants, though it's not that easy. But to be any kind of successful woman took a lot of doing in the '30s, '40s, '50s, '60s... in the '70s it's getting simpler.
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My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.
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You know you can't hope yourself a better life - you must take yourself there.
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Two warm bodies and one cold bottle of champagne will produce something more wonderful than would happen without the champagne.
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Work with the raw material you have, namely you, and never let up.
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After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.
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Love doesn't drop on you unexpectedly; you have to give off signals, sort of like an amateur radio operator.
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Being somebody is better than not being somebody vis à vis what you want out of life. If you want to talk to interesting people and have them talk to you, and if you want enough money to live someplace pleasant and to go on trips and be able to help people you love, you simply have to be somebody.
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I think a single woman's biggest problem is coping with the people who are trying to marry her off!
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You can have your titular recognition. I'll take the money and the power.
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There is no better way to get to know someone than to have an affair ... it can save years of lunches.