Helen Gurley Brown Having It All Quotes & Sayings

The faster you get back to people, the less brilliant you have to be, — Helen Gurley Brown

I've just been so lucky. I don't know if you're really able to take advantage of your full potential until you're older. There are a few people who are incredibly gifted and make it when they are very young, but I didn't. With women it takes longer. You just keep working and when you finally get it, it feels very, very nice. — Helen Gurley Brown

My own philosophy is if you're not having sex, you're finished. It separates the girls from the old people. — Helen Gurley Brown

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

People's lives change. To keep all your old friends is like keeping all your old clothes
pretty soon your closet is so jammed and everything so crushed you can't find anything to wear. Help these friends when they need you; bless the years and happy times when you meant a lot to each other, but try not to have the guilts if new people mean more to you now. — Helen Gurley Brown

When you meet a man, don't you always idly wonder what he'd be like in bed? I do. — Helen Gurley Brown

Get up and do it if it needs to be done, even if you hate it! — 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

You name it, we're out there with the latest and the best cutting edge. — 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

The only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard. — Helen Gurley Brown

Laugh a little when the joke's on you — Helen Gurley Brown

The prerequisite for making love is to like someone enormously. — 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? — 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

I think I'm a fairly average person, I think I have only a medium IQ. I didn't go to college, obviously. — Helen Gurley Brown

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense. — Helen Gurley Brown

You can have your titular recognition. I'll take money and power. — Helen Gurley Brown

Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere. — Helen Gurley Brown

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

Feed the alligators and you get bigger alligators. — Helen Gurley Brown

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

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

And that may be [Helen Gurley] Brown's most enlightened lesson: that sexual autonomy and fulfillment are inseparable from the autonomy and fulfillment that a woman gets from her career. — Judith Thurman

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. — 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

If you're not a sex object, you're in trouble. — Helen Gurley Brown

I guess anyone with a beautiful body, man or woman, loves to be looked at, but to admit such a thing is a little rough at times. That's why it's hard to get people to pose. — Helen Gurley Brown

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. — Helen Gurley Brown

Feeling insecure is good for you. It forces you to do something better, drives you to use all your talents. — Helen Gurley Brown