Helen Gurley Brown (February 18, 1922 – August 13, 2012) was an American author, publisher, and businesswoman. She was the editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine for 32 years.
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.
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
I think a single woman's biggest problem is coping with the people who are trying to marry her off!
The prerequisite for making love is to like someone enormously.
My own philosophy is if you're not having sex, you're finished. It separates the girls from the old people.
Get up and do it if it needs to be done, even if you hate it!
People never get tired of looking at beautiful pictures of gorgeous girls.
My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.
The only reason a man doesn't call is that he doesn't want to.
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.
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.
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.
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.
One of the paramount reasons for staying attractive is so you can have somebody to go to bed with.
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.
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.
Charm is the next best asset after looks and brains - and can almost make up for looks.
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.
You know you can't hope yourself a better life - you must take yourself there.
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.