90 Quotes by Helen Gurley Brown

I think a single woman’s biggest problem is coping with the people who are trying to marry her off!

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!

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

You know you can’t hope yourself a better life – you must take yourself there.

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.

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.

When you meet a man, don’t you always idly wonder what he’d be like in bed? I do.

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.

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.