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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.
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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Arkansas
Helen Marie Gurley
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The faster you get back to people, the less brilliant you have to be.
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Never throw anything good away -- real wool, pure silk. Put it away and wait for it to come back.
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If I had to choose between sex and food, I would choose food, but I'd choose sex over nearly everything else.
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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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Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.
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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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Get up and do it if it needs to be done, even if you hate it!
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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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After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.
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I think a single woman's biggest problem is coping with the people who are trying to marry her off!
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Work with the raw material you have, namely you, and never let up.
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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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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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