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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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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When you meet a man, don't you always idly wonder what he'd be like in bed? I do.
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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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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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Never expect anybody - except possibly your analyst - to be as thrilled about your sex life as you 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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The faster you get back to people, the less brilliant you have to be.
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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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Good posture is the one most important thing anybody can do now to look better.
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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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Two warm bodies and one cold bottle of champagne will produce something more wonderful than would happen without the champagne.
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My own philosophy is if you're not having sex, you're finished. It separates the girls from the old people.
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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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There is no better way to get to know someone than to have an affair ... it can save years of lunches.
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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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We are told to value ourselves without feedback, but if nobody is making a pass at you or trying to take you to Bermuda, how are you supposed to feel? Confident?
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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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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.