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Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.
Helen Gurley Brown
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Helen Gurley Brown
Age: 90 †
Born: 1922
Born: February 18
Died: 2012
Died: August 13
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Green Forest
Arkansas
Helen Marie Gurley
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I just had the idea that all the covergirls should be gorgeous, and not just interesting, not beautiful in an offbeat or exotic way, just plain yummy gorgeous.
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The only reason a man doesn't call is that he doesn't want to.
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Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody.
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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.
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Sex is one of the three best things out there, and I don't even know what the other two are.
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Feeling insecure is good for you. It forces you to do something better, drives you to use all your talents.
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Being somebody is better than not being somebody vis à vis what you want out of life. If you want to talk to interesting people and have them talk to you, and if you want enough money to live someplace pleasant and to go on trips and be able to help people you love, you simply have to be somebody.
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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.
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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.
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When you meet a man, don't you always idly wonder what he'd be like in bed? I do.
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Good posture is the one most important thing anybody can do now to look better.
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A man likes to sleep with a brainy girl. She’s a challenge. If he makes good with her, he figures he must be good himself.
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Never expect anybody - except possibly your analyst - to be as thrilled about your sex life as you are.
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Work with the raw material you have, namely you, and never let up.
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Love doesn't drop on you unexpectedly you have to give off signals, sort of like an amateur radio operator.
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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.
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My own philosophy is if you're not having sex, you're finished. It separates the girls from the old people.
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I guess anyone with a beautiful body, man or woman, loves to be looked at, but to admit such a thing is a little rough at times. That's why it's hard to get people to pose.
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Do what's in front of you as well as possible. Keep going until you realize what you're best at.
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Charm is the next best asset after looks and brains - and can almost make up for looks.
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