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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.
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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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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I think I'm a fairly average person, I think I have only a medium IQ. I didn't go to college, obviously.
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Work with the raw material you have, namely you, and never let up.
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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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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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Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody.
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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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After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.
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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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Never throw anything good away -- real wool, pure silk. Put it away and wait for it to come back.
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Get up and do it if it needs to be done, even if you hate it!
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