Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep. Helen Gurley Brown More Quotes by Helen Gurley Brown More Quotes From Helen Gurley Brown I guess I'm a survivor. There are many of us survivors and any successful woman of my age has somewhat of that in her. Helen Gurley Brown survivor successful age Talkers expand like bread dough. Helen Gurley Brown dough bread talking You can have your titular recognition. I'll take the money and the power. Helen Gurley Brown recognition Now it's somewhat easier for a woman to be a film producer or something like that if she wants, though it's not that easy. But to be any kind of successful woman took a lot of doing in the '30s, '40s, '50s, '60s... in the '70s it's getting simpler. Helen Gurley Brown kind successful want If you do the best you can, no matter how bad the situation, you probably are going to come out okay. Helen Gurley Brown okay situation matter One of the paramount reasons for staying attractive is so you can have somebody to go to bed with. Helen Gurley Brown stay-strong bed reason Charm is the next best asset after looks and brains - and can almost make up for looks. Helen Gurley Brown next brain looks Good posture is the one most important thing anybody can do now to look better. Helen Gurley Brown body important looks My own philosophy is if you're not having sex, you're finished. It separates the girls from the old people. Helen Gurley Brown girl philosophy sex 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. Helen Gurley Brown girl sleep men Do what's in front of you as well as possible. Keep going until you realize what you're best at. Helen Gurley Brown self-knowledge wells realizing When you meet a man, don't you always idly wonder what he'd be like in bed? I do. Helen Gurley Brown bed wonder men There is no better way to get to know someone than to have an affair ... it can save years of lunches. Helen Gurley Brown lunch way years The faster you get back to people, the less brilliant you have to be. Helen Gurley Brown brilliant faster people I think you keep two sets of books. In one set, you record the truth -- how well you are really doing. This is the secret set -- just for you and loved ones. In the other set are more modest entries and statements, and these are for public consumption! Helen Gurley Brown two book thinking Don't do small stuff early in your energy cycle or you'll blow your 'golden hours,' but occasionally you have to do the 'possible' to develop the momentum for the killer task. Helen Gurley Brown tasks energy blow Never throw anything good away -- real wool, pure silk. Put it away and wait for it to come back. Helen Gurley Brown wool real waiting you want to write a book for so many reasons ... The main reason ... is because it will make you well-known and beloved and popular and successful and famous and respected. You also write ... to make money, but that motivation is not first on the list. Helen Gurley Brown motivation writing book Never expect anybody - except possibly your analyst - to be as thrilled about your sex life as you are. Helen Gurley Brown never-expect analysts sex The prerequisite for making love is to like someone enormously. Helen Gurley Brown making-love real love-is
