If I had to choose between sex and food, I would choose food, but I'd choose sex over nearly everything else. Helen Gurley Brown More Quotes by Helen Gurley Brown More Quotes From Helen Gurley Brown 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. Helen Gurley Brown caring running thinking Love doesn't drop on you unexpectedly; you have to give off signals, sort of like an amateur radio operator. Helen Gurley Brown best-love funny-love giving If you’re not a sex object, you’re in trouble. Helen Gurley Brown objects trouble sex I think a single woman's biggest problem is coping with the people who are trying to marry her off! Helen Gurley Brown marriage people thinking 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. Helen Gurley Brown adrenal-glands good-marriage trying We are told to value ourselves without feedback, but if nobody is making a pass at you or trying to take you to Bermuda, how are you supposed to feel? Confident? Helen Gurley Brown bermuda feedback trying Feed the alligators and you get bigger alligators. Helen Gurley Brown alligators trouble kindness If you're a little mouseburger, come with me. I was a mouseburger and I will help you. You're so much more wonderful than you think. Cosmopolitan is shot full of this stuff although outsiders don't realize it. It is, in its way, an inspiration magazine. Helen Gurley Brown magazines inspiration thinking I just had the idea that all the covergirls should be gorgeous, and not just interesting, not beautiful in an offbeat or exotic way, just plain yummy gorgeous. Helen Gurley Brown yummy beautiful ideas Being somebody is better than not being somebody vis à vis what you want out of life. If you want to talk to interesting people and have them talk to you, and if you want enough money to live someplace pleasant and to go on trips and be able to help people you love, you simply have to be somebody. Helen Gurley Brown love-you people interesting 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 beautiful men people It's unrealistic to think you can only have one good product. People are not that poor. They can buy what they want. Helen Gurley Brown want people thinking 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. Helen Gurley Brown feel-good exercise morning Sometimes I wonder if I'm doing everyone a disservice by perpetuating the idea that beautiful is better than plain, because having done everything just about that you can do, sparing no expense, and not effort, to become better looking, I know that only so much can be done. Helen Gurley Brown effort beautiful ideas 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. Helen Gurley Brown special-you feelings people 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 full-potential nice people I think I'm a fairly average person, I think I have only a medium IQ. I didn't go to college, obviously. Helen Gurley Brown college average thinking People never get tired of looking at beautiful pictures of gorgeous girls. Helen Gurley Brown tired girl beautiful Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere. Helen Gurley Brown You can have your titular recognition. I'll take money and power. Helen Gurley Brown your you money power
