90 Quotes by Helen Gurley Brown

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.