Helen Gurley Brown Quotes
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After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.
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Do what's in front of you as well as possible. Keep going until you realize what you're best at.
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If you’re not a sex object, you’re in trouble.
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some bosses are so greedy (for themselves only) they forget underlings are not thirteenth-century peasants who can be satisfied with a glass of mead and three festivals a year.
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When you meet a man, don't you always idly wonder what he'd be like in bed? I do.
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I guess anyone with a beautiful body, man or woman, loves to be looked at, but to admit such a thing is a little rough at times. That's why it's hard to get people to pose.
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Never expect anybody - except possibly your analyst - to be as thrilled about your sex life as you are.
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Sex is one of the three best things out there, and I don't even know what the other two are.
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The prerequisite for making love is to like someone enormously.
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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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Never throw anything good away -- real wool, pure silk. Put it away and wait for it to come back.
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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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Good posture is the one most important thing anybody can do now to look better.
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I just had the idea that all the covergirls should be gorgeous, and not just interesting, not beautiful in an offbeat or exotic way, just plain yummy gorgeous.
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One of the paramount reasons for staying attractive is so you can have somebody to go to bed with.
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The happiest people I know are not those who are the most beautiful, rich or famous. The happiest people I see are simply those who stay cheerful and try to cheer up others while getting through their own bad stuff
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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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The faster you get back to people, the less brilliant you have to be.
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Sometimes I wonder if I'm doing everyone a disservice by perpetuating the idea that beautiful is better than plain, because having done everything just about that you can do, sparing no expense, and not effort, to become better looking, I know that only so much can be done.
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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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I've just been so lucky. I don't know if you're really able to take advantage of your full potential until you're older. There are a few people who are incredibly gifted and make it when they are very young, but I didn't. With women it takes longer. You just keep working and when you finally get it, it feels very, very nice.
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If you're a little mouseburger, come with me. I was a mouseburger and I will help you. You're so much more wonderful than you think. Cosmopolitan is shot full of this stuff although outsiders don't realize it. It is, in its way, an inspiration magazine.
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Trying to describe a good marriage is like trying to describe your adrenal glands. You know they're in there functioning but you don't really understand how they work.
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Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.