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Charm is the next best asset after looks and brains - and can almost make up for looks.
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 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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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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You know you can't hope yourself a better life - you must take yourself there.
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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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Every morning when I'm thrashing around on the floor doing my solid hour of heavy exercises I'm not really doing that for anyone but myself. It makes me feel good.
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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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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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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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Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.
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You can have your titular recognition. I'll take the money and the power.
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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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good girls go to heaven and bad girls go everywhere
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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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The only reason a man doesn't call is that he doesn't want to.
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We are told to value ourselves without feedback, but if nobody is making a pass at you or trying to take you to Bermuda, how are you supposed to feel? Confident?
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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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Good posture is the one most important thing anybody can do now to look better.
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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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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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