Helen Gurley Brown

“Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful man has been married to a woman who has been cheated on.”

“You can have it all, but you can't have it all at once.”

“Beauty can't amuse you, but amusement can make you beautiful.”

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

“How can any woman not be a feminist? The word means clever, it means pushy, it means demanding, it means wanting to be paid as much as a man for the same job.”

“Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.”

“The only thing that separates us from the animals is our ability to accessorize.”

“Don't use men to get what you want in life. Get it for yourself.”

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

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

“Feeling sorry for yourself is a universal solvent of ambition.”

“Fear can be one of the most destructive emotions. It is, of course, related to failure.”

“Almost any successful person begins with two beliefs: the future can be better than the present, and I have the power to make it so.”

“Sex is one of the three things you can do without a television.”

“What you have to do is work with the raw material you have, namely you, and never let up.”

“A job is not a career. A career is a series of jobs.”