Latest Helen Gurley Brown Quotes from Interviews

• 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.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Beautiful, Men, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• It's unrealistic to think you can only have one good product. People are not that poor. They can buy what they want.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Thinking, People, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I just had the idea that all the covergirls should be gorgeous, and not just interesting, not beautiful in an offbeat or exotic way, just plain yummy gorgeous.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Beautiful, Yummy, Ideas

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

  Morning, Exercise, Feel Good

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Love You, People, Interesting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

  Beautiful, Ideas, Effort

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• There are not that many people who know how to edit. It's a funny tiny little obscure talent but it's very special. You have to have the feeling of popular taste.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Special You, People, Feelings

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• People never get tired of looking at beautiful pictures of gorgeous girls.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Beautiful, Girl, Tired

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Now it's somewhat easier for a woman to be a film producer or something like that if she wants, though it's not that easy. But to be any kind of successful woman took a lot of doing in the '30s, '40s, '50s, '60s... in the '70s it's getting simpler.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Successful, Want, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I've just been so lucky. I don't know if you're really able to take advantage of your full potential until you're older. There are a few people who are incredibly gifted and make it when they are very young, but I didn't. With women it takes longer. You just keep working and when you finally get it, it feels very, very nice.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Nice, People, Full Potential

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I think I'm a fairly average person, I think I have only a medium IQ. I didn't go to college, obviously.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  College, Thinking, Average

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

  Successful, Age, Survivor

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• My father died when I was 10; my sister got polio a couple of years later and was paralyzed. So there I was - my sister in a wheel chair, my father gone, and my mother a quiet little mouse. You see, it was the '30s in the South, so my mother was not prepared to cope. So I was scared to death. And being that scared, everything afterward became a struggle not to go down the drain. Struggling became a way of life for me.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Mother, Couple, Father

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com