HELEN GURLEY BROWN

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

Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.

After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.

You can have your titular recognition. I'll take money and power.

One of the paramount reasons for staying attractive is so you can have somebody to go to bed with.

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

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

You name it, we're out there with the latest and the best cutting edge.

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

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

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

Never expect anybody - except possibly your analyst - to be as thrilled about your sex life as you are.

I think I'm a fairly average person, I think I have only a medium IQ. I didn't go to college, obviously.

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.

some bosses are so greedy (for themselves only) they forget underlings are not thirteenth-century peasants who can be satisfied with a glass of mead and three festivals a year.

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

Never throw anything good away -- real wool, pure silk. Put it away and wait for it to come back.

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.

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

My own philosophy is if you're not having sex, you're finished. It separates the girls from the old people.

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

It's unrealistic to think you can only have one good product. People are not that poor. They can buy what they want.

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.

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.

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