Helen Gurley Brown

“Laugh a little when the joke's on you”

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

“good girls go to heaven and bad girls go everywhere”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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