After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.
--Helen Gurley Brown
Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork- reading, writing, thinking- can.
--Helen Gurley Brown
Don't use men to get what you want in life. Get it yourself.
--Helen Gurley Brown
Feeling insecure is good for you. It forces you to do something better, use all your talents.
--Helen Gurley Brown
Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.
--Helen Gurley Brown
How could any woman not be a feminist? The girl I'm editing for wants to be known for herself. If that's not a feminist message, I don't know what is.
--Helen Gurley Brown
I think marriage is insurance for the worst years of your life. During your best years you don't need a husband. You do need a man of course every step of the way, and they are often cheaper emotionally and a lot more fun by the dozen.
--Helen Gurley Brown
I used to have all the sex to myself.
--Helen Gurley Brown
If only one of you is in the mood, do it. Even if sex isn't great every time, it's a unique form of communication and togetherness that can help you stay together with a good degree of contentment.
--Helen Gurley Brown
If you're not a sex object, you're in trouble.
--Helen Gurley Brown
Love doesn't drop on you unexpectedly; you have to give off signals, sort of like an amateur radio operator.
--Helen Gurley Brown
Marry a decent, good, kind person who will cherish you.
--Helen Gurley Brown
Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.
--Helen Gurley Brown
My own philosophy is if you're not having sex, you're finished.
--Helen Gurley Brown
Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep.
--Helen Gurley Brown
Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody.
--Helen Gurley Brown
One of the paramount reasons for staying attractive is so you can have somebody to go to bed with.
--Helen Gurley Brown
The message was: So you're single. You can still have sex. You can have a great life. And if you marry, don't just sponge off a man or be the gold-medal-winning mother. Don't use men to get what you want in life- get it for yourself.
--Helen Gurley Brown
What you have to do is work with the raw material you have, namely you, and never let up.
--Helen Gurley Brown
You can have your titular recognition. I'll take money and power.
--Helen Gurley Brown
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