Helen Gurley Brown's success "I care a lot. I think of Cosmopolitan all day, and I run scared. So it's a combination of fright, caring and anxiety. My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense." Helen Gurley Brown could be kind, frugal and combative, longtime associates say Writer Erica Jong recalls Brown as a nurturing editor, Liz Smith says she was set in her ways. Cosmo icon Helen Gurley Brown dies Brown first became famous with a best-selling 1962 book called "Sex and the Single Girl." Appreciation: Helen Gurley Brown, the original Carrie Bradshaw NEW YORK — Before there was "Sex and the City," there was "Sex and the Single Girl." And before there was Carrie Bradshaw, there was Helen Gurley Brown. Helen Gurley Brown was a genius, says Liz Jones, but she sold us an impossible dream Cosmo created a world where I could have sex and fall in love; where I could have an amazing career, the world at my expensively shod feet, while smelling of Charlie. But it was an illusion. Riding in elevators with Helen Gurley Brown For a writer in the Cosmopolitan empire, there was no greater thrill than getting her nod of approval Helen Gurley Brown and the Economics of Erotic Capital Helen Gurley Brown in 1964. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Helen Gurley Brown: how to have it all The pioneering Cosmopolitan editor, who has died aged 90, taught generations of women that they were entitled to a career, a family and great sex too Helen Gurley Brown, creator of the Cosmopolitan magazine brand as we know it, died in Manhattan on Monday. To many, she is the founding mother of women's magazine publishing and the woman who first put the concept of sex and single girls into the ... Helen Gurley Brown, Cosmo Editor, Dies Cosmopolitan editor told empowered women to enjoy their sexuality, but also asked them to flaunt it to get men. Helen Gurley Brown Dies: Cosmopolitan Editor, Feminist Author Cosmopolitan Editor Gave Women Mixed Messages About Sex and Men
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