Helen Gurley Brown Quotes
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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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you want to write a book for so many reasons ... The main reason ... is because it will make you well-known and beloved and popular and successful and famous and respected. You also write ... to make money, but that motivation is not first on the list.
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Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.
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Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring 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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Don't do small stuff early in your energy cycle or you'll blow your 'golden hours,' but occasionally you have to do the 'possible' to develop the momentum for the killer task.
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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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Talkers expand like bread dough.
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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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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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Charm is the next best asset after looks and brains - and can almost make up for looks.
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I guess I'm a survivor. There are many of us survivors and any successful woman of my age has somewhat of that in her.
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A man likes to sleep with a brainy girl. She’s a challenge. If he makes good with her, he figures he must be good himself.
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People never get tired of looking at beautiful pictures of gorgeous girls.
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I care. I care a lot. I think of Cosmopolitan all day, and I run scared. So it's a combination of fright, caring and anxiety.
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Every morning when I'm thrashing around on the floor doing my solid hour of heavy exercises I'm not really doing that for anyone but myself. It makes me feel good.
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Get up and do it if it needs to be done, even if you hate it!
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good girls go to heaven and bad girls go everywhere
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Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep.
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My father died when I was 10; my sister got polio a couple of years later and was paralyzed. So there I was - my sister in a wheel chair, my father gone, and my mother a quiet little mouse. You see, it was the '30s in the South, so my mother was not prepared to cope. So I was scared to death. And being that scared, everything afterward became a struggle not to go down the drain. Struggling became a way of life for me.
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I think I'm a fairly average person, I think I have only a medium IQ. I didn't go to college, obviously.
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I think you keep two sets of books. In one set, you record the truth -- how well you are really doing. This is the secret set -- just for you and loved ones. In the other set are more modest entries and statements, and these are for public consumption!
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People's lives change. To keep all your old friends is like keeping all your old clothes -- pretty soon your closet is so jammed and everything so crushed you can't find anything to wear. Help these friends when they need you; bless the years and happy times when you meant a lot to each other, but try not to have the guilts if new people mean more to you now.
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My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.