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- Birth nameHelen Marie Gurley
- Helen Gurley Brown was born on February 18, 1922 in Green Forest, Arkansas, USA. She was an actress and writer, known for Sex and the Single Girl (1964), Stoney Burke (1962) and A View from Cosmo (1982). She was married to David Brown. She died on August 13, 2012 in New York City, New York, USA.
- SpouseDavid Brown(September 25, 1959 - January 31, 2010) (his death)
- 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."
- Her father died in an elevator accident when Helen was 10 years old.
- Born to Ira and Cleo Gurley, both school teachers.
- The family moved to Little Rock when Ira was elected to the state legislature.
- Cleo Gurley moved the family to Los Angeles in the late 1930s.
- Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep.
- 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.
- Good girls go to Heaven -- bad girls go everywhere.
- Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody.
- I was mousy on the outside but inside I'm a tiger and I have to get on with it.
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