(23 quotes found)
“Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.”
Helen Gurley Brown
“Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.”
“One of the paramount reasons for staying attractive is so you can have somebody to go to bed with”
“Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can”
“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.”
“Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep”
“I care. I care a lot. I think of Cosmopolitan all day, and I run scared. So it's a combination of fright, caring and anxiety.”
“Cosmo is feminist in that we believe women are just as smart and capable as men and can achieve anything they want. But it also acknowledges that while work is important, men are, too. The Cosmo girl absolutely loves men!”
“When I wrote 'Sex and the Single Girl,' which was the precursor to Cosmopolitan, if you didn't have a husband, you might as well go to the Grand Canyon and throw yourself in. And if you were having sex with a man you were not married to? Well, your reputation was just shot.”
“What Cosmo did was report on what was true out in the real world, but was never reported before. Some of the principles were based on 'Sex and the Single Girl,' which said that if you're single and 33, you don't have to go to the Grand Canyon and throw yourself in.”
