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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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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When you meet a man, don't you always idly wonder what he'd be like in bed? I do.
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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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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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Love doesn't drop on you unexpectedly; you have to give off signals, sort of like an amateur radio operator.
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Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.
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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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The prerequisite for making love is to like someone enormously.
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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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Two warm bodies and one cold bottle of champagne will produce something more wonderful than would happen without the champagne.
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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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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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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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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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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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One of the paramount reasons for staying attractive is so you can have somebody to go to bed with.
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The faster you get back to people, the less brilliant you have to be.
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Good posture is the one most important thing anybody can do now to look better.
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Charm is the next best asset after looks and brains - and can almost make up for looks.
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Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.