Helen gurley brown

How one Hearst executive took control of the Cosmopolitan editor’s legacy — and her $50 million apartment.

Somewhere back in the day Helen Gurley Brown said that after a certain age the only thing a woman could rely on to improve her appearance was good posture and expensive jewelry. At least that is my recollection, though I no longer recall the exact source or context. The gender specificity, the whiff of doom in the goal, the daft simplicity, the conciseness, the candor, and the plausibility caused it to stick in my head (although my most recent earrings were bought for three dollars from a…

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"Good girls go to Heaven. Bad girls go Everywhere." - Helen Gurley Brown

Joan Didion reports from Helen Gurley Brown's book tour in the 1960s.

Nora Ephron’s first article for Esquire—where she was a star essayist in the ’70s—is the definitive magazine profile of Helen Gurley Brown, who not only resurrected Cosmopolitan magazine, but already by 1970, had revolutionized the magazine business.

Read 54 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. When reviewing the great figures of feminism, few would call to mind the creator of the Cos…