Quotes from 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.

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.

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

Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.

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

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

Every morning when I'm thrashing around on the floor doing my solid hour of heavy exercises I'm not really doing that for anyone but myself. It makes me feel good.

Feed the alligators and you get bigger alligators.

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

You know you can't hope yourself a better life - you must take yourself there.

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

The prerequisite for making love is to like someone enormously.

I care. I care a lot. I think of "Cosmopolitan" all day, and I run scared. So it's a combination of fright, caring, and anxiety.

You can have your titular recognition. I'll take money and power.

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

It's unrealistic to think you can only have one good product. People are not that poor. They can buy what they want.

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

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

Don't use men to get what you want in life. Get it yourself.

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

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

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

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

good girls go to heaven and bad girls go everywhere