Helen Gurley Brown Quotes
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Get up and do it if it needs to be done, even if you hate it!
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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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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 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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You know you can't hope yourself a better life - you must take yourself there.
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The only reason a man doesn't call is that he doesn't want to.
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You can have your titular recognition. I'll take the money and the power.
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good girls go to heaven and bad girls go everywhere
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Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.
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If I had to choose between sex and food, I would choose food, but I'd choose sex over nearly everything else.
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Work with the raw material you have, namely you, and never let up.