Helen Gurley Brown Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Helen Gurley Brown was born on February 18, 1922 in Green Forest, Arkansas, USA as Helen Marie Gurley. She was an actress and writer. She was married to David Brown. She died on August 13, 2012 in New York City, New York, USA.
February 18, 1922, Green Forest, Arkansas, United States
Died
August 13, 2012, New York City, New York, United States
Place Of Birth
Green Forest, Arkansas, USA
Profession
Actress, Writer
Spouse
David Brown (m. 1959–2010)
Parents
Ira Marvin Gurley, Cleo Gurley
Star Sign
Aquarius
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[describing herself] A mouseburger is a young woman who is not very prepossessing. She is not beautiful. She is poor, has no family connections, and she is not a razzle-dazzle ball of charm. She is a kind of waif.
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Sex is one of the three best things we have, and I don't know the other two.
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I never liked the looks of the life that was programmed for me - ordinary, hillbilly and poor - and I repudiated it from the time I was seven years old.
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I was mousy on the outside but inside I'm a tiger and I have to get on with it.
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Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody.
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Good girls go to Heaven -- bad girls go everywhere.
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The reward of not having children [is] if I get blown up tomorrow, I'll have lived long enough and I won't have to worry about my children.
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Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep.
She was said to bring her lunch to work almost every day for the more than 30 years she spent at Hearst.
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Gurley Brown went on to earn a business degree at Woodbury Business College, and began her career in 1941 with a series of secretarial jobs.
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Gurley Brown excelled socially and academically, graduating from high school as class valedictorian.
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Cleo Gurley moved the family to Los Angeles in the late 1930s.
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Her father died in an elevator accident when Helen was 10 years old.
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The family moved to Little Rock when Ira was elected to the state legislature.
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Born to Ira and Cleo Gurley, both school teachers.
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Until her death, Girley Brown was known for coming into her pink corner office nearly every day.
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As editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan from 1965-1996, Brown published readers' confessions on the most unusual places they were intimate, an article entitled "How I'd steal the president (Richard Nixon) away from Pat," and the Burt Reynolds centerfold. Betty Friedan called Cosmopolitan under Brown's sex-drenched stewardship "quite obscene and quite horrible."
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