Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Cosmo Girl

"Ta da, bitches!  I'm editor of Cosmo, and you're not!"
 Few know that the SJG has based my life on the words and wisdom of Helen Gurley Brown, a smart Jewish gal who figured out a few things about men and women during her 90 years on earth.  Here are just some of HGB's empowering ideals I've tried to emulate:
1. “Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.”
2. “Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork—reading, writing, thinking—can.”
3. “My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.”
4. "Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody.”
5. “Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlepp.”
6. “What you have to do is work with the raw material you have, namely you, and never let up.”
7. "If you’re not a sex object, you’re in trouble.”
8. “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.”
9. “Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.”
10. “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.”
11. “After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.”
12. “One of the paramount reasons for staying attractive is so you can have somebody to go to bed with.”
13. “You can have your titular recognition. I'll take money and power.”
(quotes courtesy of Daily Beast)

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