Quotes from Helen Gurley Brown

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

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork — reading, writing, thinking — can.

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

money,if it does not bring you happiness,it will atleast help you be miserable in comfort

If you can forget the stultifying concept that there are appropriate years for certain endeavors (like getting married) and appropriate days for being gay and merry (like Saturday nights) and use these times without embarrassment or self-pity to do something creative and constructive, I believe half your single girl battle is over.

Laugh a little when the joke's on you

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

If you're not a sex symbol, you're in trouble.

I know one fortunate little boy whose parents told him the facts of life so satisfactorily, he said in the next breath, "Now tell me how they make peanut butter."),

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.

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.

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

Laugh a little when the joke's on you

good girls go to heaven and bad girls go everywhere

There are not that many people who know how to edit. It's a funny tiny little obscure talent but it's very special. You have to have the feeling of popular taste.