“Leonora could see”: Barbara Pym, The Sweet Dove Died, 155.
“I’ve just eaten”: MS Pym 82, Nov. 21, 1979.
Helen Gurley Brown
“Never did write”: Handwritten note, Nov. 20, 2000, box 35, folder 11, Helen Gurley Brown Papers, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, Northampton, MA.
“David is a motion picture producer”: Helen Gurley Brown, Sex and the Single Girl (hereafter SASG), 3.
“There’s nothing left”: Nora Ephron, “‘If You’re a Little Mouseburger, Come with Me. I Was a Mouseburger and I Will Help You,’” in Wallflower at the Orgy, 21.
“I like it with a light cream sauce”: “Feedback,” Bon Appetit, April 1989, 150.
“Eating is sexy”: “The Low Will-Power, High-Protein Diet,” Cosmopolitan, Aug. 1965, 37.
“If I eat”: Felicity Green, “Helen Gurley Brown, Six-O and Still Going Strong,” Daily Express (London), Feb. 26, 1982.
“struggling”: Helen Gurley Brown, Helen Gurley Brown’s Single Girl’s Cookbook (hereafter Cookbook), 5.
“a pretty good cook”: Brown, SASG, 143.
“Lots of canned sausages”: Ibid., 152.
“Skinny to me”: Manuscript, I’m Wild Again, n.d., box 31, folder 7, Brown Papers.
“Heaven!”: Helen Gurley Brown, I’m Wild Again, 156.
“He makes me feel”: Manuscript, n.d., box 35, folder 12, Brown Papers.
“beautiful pearls”: Manuscript, 1962–1963, box 35, folder 10, Brown Papers.
“People would walk”: Brown, SASG, 169.
“Have half mid-morning”: Ibid., 173.
“like Gandhi”: Ibid., 169.
“Candy is a damned fine stripper”: Manuscript, 1962–1963, box 35, folder 10, Brown Papers.
“Suffice it to say”: Brown, SASG, 170.
“Whatever your age”: Green, “Helen Gurley Brown.”
“If you are already”: Brown, SASG, 178.
“the weirdies, the creepies”: Ibid., 18.
“The fact is, you vote”: Valerie Groves, “All You Need Is Brains,” Standard (London), Feb. 25, 1982.
“We health nuts”: Brown, SASG, 177.
“I diet every day”: Ibid., 179.
“particularly happy”: Manuscript, 1962–1963, box 35, folder 10, Brown Papers.
“I’m a wife”: Ibid.
“MY WHITE KNIGHT”: Manuscript, 1962–1963, box 35, folder 9, Brown Papers.
“I am not your truly liberated”: Diana Lurie, “Living with Liberation,” New York, Aug. 31, 1970, 22.
“She’s most pleased”: “Perspectives,” House Beautiful, March 1972, 28.
“I take good care”: Ibid.
“When she receives”: Chris Welles, “Soaring Success of the Iron Butterfly,” Life, Nov. 19, 1965, 66.
“I’m the geisha girl”: Chris Barnett, “The Movie Mogul and ‘That Cosmo Girl,’” Mainliner, July 1980, 56.
“Money is sexy”: Elin Schoen, “Seven Two-Career Couples,” New York, Oct. 25, 1976, 40.
“Don’t you like me anymore?”: Manuscript, 1962–1963, box 35, folder 10, Brown Papers.
“I said, ‘That’s my book!’”: Brown to Bernard Geis, Oct. 10, 1962, box 19, folder 2, Brown Papers.
“We had bloody battles”: Ibid.
“In other words”: Ibid.
“I can’t cook”: Manuscript, n.d., box 25, folder 2, Brown Papers.
“(They assume I have . . .)”: Ibid.
“failing with the never-fail”: Brown, SASG, 143.
“a pretty good cook”: Ibid.
“fabulous little dinners”: Ibid., 154.
“Rumanian gypsy music”: Ibid., 151.
“a hearty little breakfast”: Ibid., 152.
“Rosa Rita frozen”: Ibid., 148.
“Or use canned tomatoes”: Ibid., 154.
“borrowed heavily”: Ibid., 155.
“Marinated Vegetable Platter”: Ibid., 163.
“Foamy Vanilla Sauce”: Ibid., 158.
“It’s a chance for everybody”: Manuscript, “The Single Girl,” box 35, folder 3, Brown Papers.
“to say some of the things”: Manuscript, “Frankly Female,” box 35, folder 3, Brown Papers.
“soothing, soporific talk”: Manuscript, “The UNWIND UP,” box 35, folder 3, Brown Papers.
Cook’s on the Fire: Manuscript, “TV format,” box 35, folder 3, Brown Papers.
“Femme”: Manuscript, “A Proposal for a New Magazine,” 13, box 37, folder 2, Brown Papers.
“fight against aging”: Ibid., 14.
“The Men in Your Life”: Ibid., 15.
“a superbly eligible man”: Ibid, 16.
“New Yorker size”: Ibid., 5.
“Great Stars”: Cosmopolitan, July 1962; August 1962; June 1960.
“I always knew”: “How to Reposition a Publication,” Media Management Monograph, no. 18, Feb. 1980, 4–5.
“one of the fastest”: Welles, “Soaring Success,” 65.
“Every new paragraph”: “Cosmopolitan’s Ubiquitous Editor,” Media People, Fall 1983.
“You and I are such”: Helen Gurley Brown, “Step into My Parlor,” Cosmopolitan, March 1975, 6.
“If Mrs. Brown”: Quoted in “Playboy Interview: Helen Gurley Brown,” Playboy, April 1963, 56.
“italics, exclamation points”: Ephron, “‘If You’re a Little Mouseburger,’” 17.
“I would say the writing”: “Cosmopolitan’s Ubiquitous Editor.”
“Let’s just say”: “Playboy Interview,” 56.
“Cooking is part of wooing”: Brown, SASG, 140.
“sinful,” “naughty”: Helen Gurley Brown, Having It All, 121–26.
“Poulet Negresco”: Manuscript, 1962–1963, box 35, folder 9, Brown Papers.
“I have dumped”: Brown, Having It All, 114.
“Passionate Antipasto Party”: Cosmopolitan, July 1966, 96.
“hearty open-faced steak Tartare”: Ibid., March 1966, 72.
“Exotic East Indian Meat Loaf”: Ibid., April 1972, 38.
“easy feast”: Memorandum to “Barbara Ann,” Aug. 25, 1975, box 42, folder 5, Brown Papers.
“Go Geisha!”: Cosmopolitan, Jan. 1975, 16.
“The Low Will-Power”: Ibid., Aug. 1965, 37.
“English muffins dripping”: Ibid.
“the incredible, intoxicating joy”: Gael Greene, “Forbidden Fruit for Indulgent Dieters,” Cosmopolitan, Dec. 1965, 24.
“When you’re full”: Joan Dunn, “Dieter’s Notebook,” Cosmopolitan, Feb. 1970, 46.
“overconscientious food and medical”: Ibid., March 1968, 44.
“Ask your doctor about Bamadex”: Ibid., Jan. 1966, 23.
“an incredible salad bar”: Brown, “Step into My Parlor,” Cosmopolitan, Jan. 1978, 6.
“I substitute fake ingredients”: Esquire, Nov. 1984, C24.
“Thirty minutes on the body”: Green, “Helen Gurley Brown, Six-O,” 15.
“Age to me is a disease”: Pamela Coleman, “Things I Wish I’d Known at 18,” Sunday Express (London), Sept. 4, 1983.
“I may have carried it”: Helen Gurley Brown, The Late Show, 264.
“I think you may have to have”: Brown, Having It All, 129.
“She carefully fished out”: Audrey Slaughter, “In Her Own Image,” Sunday Times (London), Dec. 28, 1980.
“Her face is strangely”: Ibid.
“I get seriously aggravated”: Nancy Lloyd, “Helen Gurley Brown,” Modern Maturity, May–June 1997, 56.
“Mostly the pushers”: Brown, The Late Show, 191.
“Bitch!”: Brown, Having It All, 112.
How to Love a Girl: Brown to Bernard Geis, March 5, 1962, box 19, folder 2, Brown Papers.
“peek-a-b
oo necklines”: Helen Gurley Brown, Sex and the Office, 24.
to try a cookbook: By the time the cookbook was finally published in 1969, it had become Helen’s fourth book with Geis. In 1966 he brought out, in cooperation with Avon Books, Helen Gurley Brown’s Outrageous Opinions, a collection of syndicated newspaper columns that Helen had written between 1963 and 1965.
“lulu of a cookbook”: Bernard Geis to Margot Reiman Martin, June 22, 1963, box 19, folder 8, Brown Papers.
“the best in the world!”: Memorandum, “Notes on Single Girl’s Cookbook,” box 25, folder 1, Brown Papers.
“Margo allowed me to take”: Brown, Cookbook, 4.
“It is for new-girl cooks”: Brown to Jackie Farber, Oct. 13, 1968, box 19, folder 2, Brown Papers.
“Tear off two sheets”: Brown, Cookbook, 174.
“for the girls”: Ibid., 145.
“Garbanzo Dip”: Ibid, 188.
“Mama’s Noodles”: Ibid, 209.
“This darling cookbook”: Ibid., 57.
“These dear little blender breakfasts”: Ibid., 71.
“Go! Go! Go!”: Ibid., 196.
“Let other girls”: Ibid., 195.
“lively and practical”: Publishers Weekly, Feb. 13, 1969, 62.
“clear directions”: Gloria Levitas, “Summer Eating,” Book World (Chicago Tribune), July 6, 1969, 5.
“I hope so”: “Dialogue,” National Catholic Register, March 29, 1981, 5.
“I think date rape”: Bob Frost, “Interview,” West (San Jose Mercury News), Oct. 31, 1993.
“Flattery, flattery”: Lloyd, “Helen Gurley Brown.”
“Age gets all of us”: Ibid.
Helen’s version became: Vivian Gornick, “The Next Great Moment in History Is Theirs,” Village Voice, November 27, 1969; Gornick, “The Women’s Liberation Movement!” Cosmopolitan, April 1970, 140.
“militant feminism”: “Ten Questions We Finally Got the Nerve to Ask Helen Gurley Brown,” Madison Avenue, September 1985.
“And perhaps that’s where”: Brown, “Step into My Parlor,” Cosmopolitan, June 1970, 6.
“I’m skinny!”: Transcript of interview by Gloria Steinem for ABC/Hearst, “In Conversation with Helen Gurley Brown,” 1985, box 16, folder 5, Brown Papers.
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