Quote

You know you can't hope yourself a better life - you must take yourself there.

Helen Gurley Brown

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Helen Gurley Brown
Age: 90 †
Born: 1922
Born: February 18
Died: 2012
Died: August 13
Author
Businessperson
Editor
Journalist
Writer
Green Forest
Arkansas
Helen Marie Gurley
Hope
Better
Take
Must
Life

More quotes by Helen Gurley Brown

Image
After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.
Helen Gurley Brown
Image
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
Image
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.
Helen Gurley Brown
Image
Good posture is the one most important thing anybody can do now to look better.
Helen Gurley Brown
Image
good girls go to heaven and bad girls go everywhere
Helen Gurley Brown
Image
Do what's in front of you as well as possible. Keep going until you realize what you're best at.
Helen Gurley Brown
Image
Never throw anything good away -- real wool, pure silk. Put it away and wait for it to come back.
Helen Gurley Brown
Image
Talkers expand like bread dough.
Helen Gurley Brown
Image
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.
Helen Gurley Brown
Image
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.
Helen Gurley Brown
Image
Feeling insecure is good for you. It forces you to do something better, drives you to use all your talents.
Helen Gurley Brown
Image
Never expect anybody - except possibly your analyst - to be as thrilled about your sex life as you are.
Helen Gurley Brown
Image
Get up and do it if it needs to be done, even if you hate it!
Helen Gurley Brown
Image
Love doesn't drop on you unexpectedly you have to give off signals, sort of like an amateur radio operator.
Helen Gurley Brown
Image
You can have your titular recognition. I'll take the money and the power.
Helen Gurley Brown
Image
The faster you get back to people, the less brilliant you have to be.
Helen Gurley Brown
Image
If I had to choose between sex and food, I would choose food, but I'd choose sex over nearly everything else.
Helen Gurley Brown
Image
My own philosophy is if you're not having sex, you're finished. It separates the girls from the old people.
Helen Gurley Brown
Image
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?
Helen Gurley Brown
Image
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.
Helen Gurley Brown