Helen Gurley Brown
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Helen Gurley Brown was the editor of Cosmopolitan and author of Sex and the Single Girl. I’ve always tended to laugh at her efforts and products. And feminists despise her lessons in catering to men. But women not all that long ago had few choices. And if your economic wellbeing depended on your choice or a husband then insuring attracted a stable and prosperous man was sadly nothing more than good sense.
“If you were female and not married by age 30, you might as well go to the Grand Canyon and throw yourself in.” Ms. Brown knew, the author writes, that single women “wanted to feel good about rather than ashamed of the life choices they made or contemplated.” The single girl, she proclaimed, “is a giver, not a taker, a winner and not a loser.”
A review if a biography of HGB, Bad Girls Go Everywhere: Helen Gurley Brown: The Original Carrie Bradshaw