“If you can forget the stultifying concept that there are appropriate years for certain endeavors (like getting married) and appropriate days for being gay and merry (like Saturday nights) and use these times without embarrassment or self-pity to do something… — Helen Gurley Brown Copy Share Image
It's unrealistic to think you can only have one good product. People are not that poor. They can buy what they want. — Helen Gurley Brown Copy Share Image
The only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard. — Helen Gurley Brown Copy Share Image
After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money. — Helen Gurley Brown Copy Share Image
There is no better way to get to know someone than to have an affair ... it can save years of lunches. — Helen Gurley Brown Copy Share Image
Do what's in front of you as well as possible. Keep going until you realize what you're best at. — Helen Gurley Brown Copy Share Image
Never expect anybody - except possibly your analyst - to be as thrilled about your sex life as you are. — Helen Gurley Brown Copy Share Image
Being somebody is better than not being somebody vis à vis what you want out of life. If you want to talk to interesting… — Helen Gurley Brown Copy Share Image
I think a single woman's biggest problem is coping with the people who are trying to marry her off! — Helen Gurley Brown Copy Share Image
My own philosophy is if you're not having sex, you're finished. It separates the girls from the old people. — Helen Gurley Brown Copy Share Image
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… — Helen Gurley Brown Copy Share
