Helen Gurley Brown was the original Carrie Bradshaw. The legendary editor of Cosmopolitan magazine, she helped women see that feeling sexy and being a feminist didn’t have to be mutually exclusive. We were sad to hear that Helen passed away yesterday in New York City at the age of 90. To celebrate the near century she spent on earth inspiring women to live fuller, happier lives, we rounded up some of our favourite quotes from Helen Gurley Brown that all women should try to live by.
1. “Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.”
2. “Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.”
3. “Nearly every glamourous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlepp.”
4. “How could any woman not be a feminist? The girl I’m editing for wants to be known for herself. If that’s not a feminist message, I don’t know what is.”
5. “You can have your titular recognition. I’ll take money and power.”
6. “Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody.”
7. “Don’t use men to get what you want in life. Get it yourself.”
8. “Beauty can’t amuse you, but brainwork — reading, writing, thinking — can.”
9. “I hope I have convinced you — the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren’t is the willingness to work very, very hard.”
10. “My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.”
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