Helen Gurley Brown Quotes
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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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The only reason a man doesn't call is that he doesn't want to.
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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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After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.
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There are not that many people who know how to edit. It's a funny tiny little obscure talent but it's very special. You have to have the feeling of popular taste.
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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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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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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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Never expect anybody - except possibly your analyst - to be as thrilled about your sex life as you are.
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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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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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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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You can have your titular recognition. I'll take the money and the power.
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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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Charm is the next best asset after looks and brains - and can almost make up for looks.
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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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The prerequisite for making love is to like someone enormously.
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Feed the alligators and you get bigger alligators.
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If you’re not a sex object, you’re in trouble.
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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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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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good girls go to heaven and bad girls go everywhere
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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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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 never get tired of looking at beautiful pictures of gorgeous girls.
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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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You know you can't hope yourself a better life - you must take yourself there.
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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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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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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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