O W Gurley Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

There are so many demons. Agnes tips the bottle back and her eyes flutter closed, and she swallows, and swallows again, and the burn of it tells her it will be okay, that everything will be just fine, because the burn is always followed by the dark, and the dark is followed by - Peace. Or something very much like it. She drinks, and eventually her grip loosens on the bottle, and she slips into that dark where Esmerelda, where Eleanor, where nobody else is permitted. — Jason Gurley

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

No one in college football or the SEC can tackle me by themselves. — Todd Gurley

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

You can't make money with a consensus accurate prediction — Bill Gurley

The first time you went to eBay, you probably didn't do a transaction. — Bill Gurley

a well of beauty tucked away inside the girl, masked by drawn expressions and tired shoulders. She carries unseen weights. — Jason Gurley

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

It's not for everybody to tweet, it's for everybody to follow. The more people figure that out, they see it's RSS-plus. It's literally the place you check for information. — Bill Gurley

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

There should be someone in the world who loves you despite you," she whispers to her mother. — Jason Gurley

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

I admit I get the occasional headache," I said. "I admit some of my hangovers are epic. But usually all it takes for me to bounce back is a sauna, cold-plunge pool, steam bath, massage, and wasabi to clear the sinuses". — George Gurley

It's really hard to run a business against somebody who is not acting as if it were in business. — Bill Gurley

History has a long-range perspective. It ultimately passes stern judgment on tyrants and vindicates those who fought, suffered, were imprisoned, and died for human freedom, against political oppression and economic slavery. — Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

This is how the darkness is. It knows nothing else. It fills crevices, pushing into the finest, narrowest corners, ascribing no meaning to the events that it carries, but birthing and then swallowing them again as they expire. — Jason Gurley

Reality is a terrific drug. — Jason Gurley

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

She cannot relax. The world around her is a living, breathing metaphor. The boat is her mother's frail body, groaning under Eleanor's weight. The sea is the poison that waits below, ready to consume her when she stumbles. The island is death, and she carves a resolute path - "a straight shot," as Jack said - to death's very door. Eleanor — Jason Gurley