Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.

- Helen Gurley Brown

My own philosophy is if you're not having sex, you're finished. It separates the girls from the old people.

- Helen Gurley Brown

Get up and do it if it needs to be done, even if you hate it!

- Helen Gurley Brown

Work with the raw material you have, namely you, and never let up.

- Helen Gurley Brown

Feeling insecure is good for you. It forces you to do something better, drives you to use all your talents.

- Helen Gurley Brown

The faster you get back to people, the less brilliant you have to be.

- Helen Gurley Brown

If you’re not a sex object, you’re in trouble.

- Helen Gurley Brown

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.

- Helen Gurley Brown

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