Helen Gurley Brown Quotes

Men need to feel important. They feel better when they're with younger girls or unknown girls.

A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her.

I find very often that very ugly women have really handsome men and vice versa because they don't have any competition. Sometimes handsome men have avoided me.

Sexuality is often tied in with something you feel you lack in yourself and look for in others.

...you don't care because you're all that and I'm just an artery in a dress.

An integral part of any relationship is knowing that you could be killed in your sleep at any time.

I don't like sleeping with people I really love. I don't want to sleep with them because sex cannot last, but affection can last forever.

Just the fact that you need me to prove I love you is probably a clue it isn’t working

Men love you more if they can be made a little uncertain about owning you.

Doctor, I had never had anybody like her in my life, she was the fulfillment of my most lascivious adolescent dreams– but marry her, can she be serious? You see, for all her preening and perfumes, she has a very low opinion of herself, and simultaneously– and here is the source of much of our trouble-a ridiculously high opinion of me. And simultaneously, a very low opinion of me! She is one confused Monkey, and, I'm afraid, not too very bright.

That you can know what i have in me and still want me as much as i want you. i go to sleep every night afraid i'll wake up and you'll be gone.or that i scared you away ... that i dreamed you-" "no. Gideon." jesus he broke my heart every day. shattered me.

She says it's really not very flattering to her that the women who fall in love with her husband are so uncommonly second-rate.

Before going home with a guy, give him a blow job. Guys are always more relaxed after a blow job.

Think of all the women you know who will not allow themselves to be seen without makeup. I often wonder how they feel about themselves at night when they are climbing into bed with intimate partners. Are they overwhelmed with secret shame that someone sees them as they really are? Or do they sleep with rage that who they really are can be celebrated or cared for only in secret?

It's rather difficult to think of anybody being really interested in me. But you know, man, I am totally together.

I'd rather be smart than a movie star.

I came to realize that I was always looking for myself in the women I loved. I looked at their lovely, clean faces, and saw myself reflected in them. They, on the other hand, looked at me and saw the dirt on my face and, however intelligent and self confident they were, they ended up seeing themselves reflected in me and thinking that they were worse than they were. Please don't let that happen to you.

I've finally been able to trust and have intimacy with somebody, which I've never been able to do. Like a lot of guys, I just have a hard time getting that connected. I can actually sleep with her in my arms - spoons position, right? Women smile, they love the spoons. Men would rather fork.

Cleverness is a quality a man likes to have in his wife as long as she is some distance away from him. Up close, he'll take kindness any day of the week, if there's nothing more alluring to be had.

I have a very vibrant imposter syndrome that goes on throughout most of my life, but nothing more than when someone has to put a hat on me or some kind of sash and go, 'We're giving you this certificate.'

I have an inferiority complex, but it’s not a very good one.

I'm the type of person who feels I have to prove myself first.

We really damage our own confidence when we put ourselves down, so I try not to.

My identity depended on men for so long. You can be successful and still have the feeling that if you're not with a man you don't exist.

There was a time when I was way too reliant upon other people's opinions and perspective of me. And I guess over time came to see how unhealthy that was. I mean it's almost like a sign of mental illness to base your self-worth on the opinions of complete strangers.