Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - … — Helen Gurley Brown

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them. — Mason Cooley
Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort. — Helen Gurley Brown
Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep. — Helen Gurley Brown
After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money. — Helen Gurley Brown