Quotes by Helen Gurley Brown

“While money cant buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery”

“Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.”

“Beauty cant amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can”

“I hope I have convinced you / the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who arent is the willingness to work very, very hard.”

“One of the paramount reasons for staying attractive is so you can have somebody to go to bed with”

“No office anywhere on earth is so puritanical, impeccable, elegant, sterile or incorruptible as not to contain the yeast for at least one affair, probably more. You can say it couldnt happen here, but just let a yeast raiser into the place and first thing you know - bread!”

“I care. I care a lot. I think of Cosmopolitan all day, and I run scared. So its a combination of fright, caring and anxiety.”

“The message was: So youre single. You can still have sex. You can have a great life. And if you marry, dont just sponge off a man or be the gold-medal-winning mother. Dont use men to get what you want in life - - get it for yourself.”

“Cosmo is feminist in that we believe women are just as smart and capable as men and can achieve anything they want. But it also acknowledges that while work is important, men are, too. The Cosmo girl absolutely loves men!”

good girls go to heaven and bad girls go everywhere

Laugh a little when the jokes on you

I care. I care a lot. I think of Cosmopolitan all day and I run scared. So its a combination of fright caring and anxiety.

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.

You can have your titular recognition. Ill take money and power.

Nearly every glamorous wealthy successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlepp.

After youre older two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.

Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking you are boring somebody.

The only thing that separates successful people from the ones who arent is the willingness to work very very hard.

After youre older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.