Helen Gurley Brown Quotes

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I think a single woman's biggest problem is coping with the people who are trying to marry her off!

Helen Gurley Brown
Love doesn't just drop on you unexpectedly; you have to give off signals, sort of like an amateur radio operator.

Helen Gurley Brown
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.

Helen Gurley Brown
Never say bad, cruel, crummy, unhappy, unpleasant, critical things in a letter.

Helen Gurley Brown
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!

Helen Gurley Brown
Sex is important. Sex is one of the three best things we have — I don't even know what the other two are. It connects you with life.

Helen Gurley Brown
Don't do small stuff early in your energy cycle or you'll blow your 'golden hours,' but occasionally you have to do the 'possible' to develop the momentum for the killer task.

Helen Gurley Brown
Never expect anybody — except possibly your analyst — to be as thrilled about your sex life as you are.

Helen Gurley Brown
Trying to describe a good marriage is like trying to describe your adrenal glands. You know they're in there functioning but you don't really understand how they work.

Helen Gurley Brown
There is no better way to get to know someone than to have an affair... it can save years of lunches.

Helen Gurley Brown
Never throw anything good away — real wool, pure silk. Put it away and wait for it to come back.

Helen Gurley Brown
Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody.

Helen Gurley Brown
If I had to choose between sex and food, I would choose food, but I'd choose sex over nearly everything else.

Helen Gurley Brown
Work with the raw material you have, namely you, and never let up.

Helen Gurley Brown
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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Charm is the next best asset after looks and brains — and can almost make up for looks.

Helen Gurley Brown
Never, ever forget that people's selfish interest comes first, and that includes you and me.

Helen Gurley Brown
If you're a little mouseburger, come with me. I was a mouseburger and I will help you. You're so much more wonderful than you think. Cosmopolitan is shot full of this stuff although outsiders don't realize it. It is, in its way, an inspiration magazine.

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Good posture is the one most important thing anybody can do now to look better.

Helen Gurley Brown
The only reason a man doesn't call is that he doesn't want to.

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Doing what we feel we have to do for ourselves — even if inconvenient to others — is how we stay alive and occasionally get something we want. Underneath — possibly way underneath baffling behavior — is the likelihood the behavior is answering somebody's (dumb or reasonable) need.

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Brown: I've never worked …without being sexually involved with in the office.
Questioner: What about the?
Brown: Why discriminate against?

Helen Gurley Brown
Whether in private conversation or in a group — if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody!

Helen Gurley Brown
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.

Helen Gurley Brown
That cat is in love with me, but to say that it's 'mutual' doesn't begin to describe anything. I'm totally irrational about her. She and I are a scandal.

Helen Gurley Brown