Helen Gurley Brown Quotes

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good girls go to heaven and bad girls go everywhere
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Feeling insecure is good for you. It forces you to do something better, drives you to use all your talents.
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Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork β€” reading, writing, thinking β€” can.
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Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.
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The only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.
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money,if it does not bring you happiness,it will atleast help you be miserable in comfort
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Don’t you see? Helen Gurley Brown is still telling us that we need a man to be fulfilled. Betty Friedan is telling us that we already have everything we need within ourselves.
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RenΓ©e Rosen (Park Avenue Summer)
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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.
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Judith Thurman
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Laugh a little when the joke's on you
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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.
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Helen Gurley Brown (Sex and The Single Girl)
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Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.
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I still believe monogamy is a construct, and I don't necessarily think that humans are biologically cut out for it. Someday I might decide again that I'm not either.
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Melissa Faliveno (Sex and the Single Woman: 24 Writers Reimagine Helen Gurley Brown's Cult Classic)
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(I know one fortunate little boy whose parents told him the facts of life so satisfactorily, he said in the next breath, β€œNow tell me how they make peanut butter.”),
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Helen Gurley Brown (Sex and the Single Girl: The Unmarried Woman's Guide to Men (Cult Classics))
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Barbie Baby-Sits" appeared in 1963, a year after the publication of Helen Gurley Brown's best-selling Sex and the Single Girl. And whether it was Brown's influence or an effect of synchronicity, Barbie began to resemble Brown's happily unmarried woman.
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M.G. Lord (Forever Barbie: The Unauthorized Biography of a Real Doll)
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Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.” β€”Helen Gurley Brown
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Krystal Kenney (Paris, A Life Less Ordinary: A Memoir)
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I realized, floating beneath the surface, that after years of being so intimately connected to one other human being, and after having that connection severed, I no longer had the desire to interact with anyone other than myself.
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Melissa Faliveno (Sex and the Single Woman: 24 Writers Reimagine Helen Gurley Brown's Cult Classic)
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What I want is irreplaceable. What I want comes from a feeling so intimate, and so increasingly elusive, that to obtain it is like a kind of nirvana.
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Melissa Faliveno (Sex and the Single Woman: 24 Writers Reimagine Helen Gurley Brown's Cult Classic)
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Civilization is fragile. And when shit falls apart, I want to protect my family.
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Melissa Faliveno (Sex and the Single Woman: 24 Writers Reimagine Helen Gurley Brown's Cult Classic)
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If you're not a sex symbol, you're in trouble.
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