Helen Gurley Brown Quotes

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

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

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

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

Work with the raw material you have, namely you, and never let up.

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

Sex is one of the three best things out there, and I don't even know what the other two are.

If I had to choose between sex and food, I would choose food, but I'd choose sex over nearly everything else.

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

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

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

good girls go to heaven and bad girls go everywhere

If you do the best you can, no matter how bad the situation, you probably are going to come out okay.

Charm is the next best asset after looks and brains - and can almost make up for looks.

The faster you get back to people, the less brilliant you have to be.

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

The happiest people I know are not those who are the most beautiful, rich or famous. The happiest people I see are simply those who stay cheerful and try to cheer up others while getting through their own bad stuff

Feed the alligators and you get bigger alligators.

If you’re not a sex object, you’re in trouble.

There is no better way to get to know someone than to have an affair ... it can save years of lunches.

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

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

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.

Do what's in front of you as well as possible. Keep going until you realize what you're best at.

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