A Cosmo girl's complicated legacy Longtime Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown was a self-described "devout feminist" who paradoxically preached that "if you're not a sex object, you're in trouble." 10 Fun Facts About Helen Gurley Brown Legendary Cosmo editor passed away earlier this week at age 90. Riot gurl: Celebrating Helen Gurley Brown's sexy, radical feminism No description available Helen Gurley Brown's complicated feminist legacy Longtime Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown was a self-described "devout feminist" who paradoxically preached that "if you're not a sex object, you're in trouble." Another of her famous quips had it that "good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere." The legacy of Helen Gurley Brown When women complain about men who can't commit, they can thank — or blame — two people: Playboy magazine publisher Hugh Hefner and the former editor of Cosmopolitan magazine, Helen Gurley Brown, who died this week at age 90. Helen Gurley Brown could be kind, frugal and combative, longtime associates say Writer Erica Jong recalls Brown as a nurturing editor, Liz Smith says she was set in her ways. Remembering Helen Gurley Brown's Unrealized Pube Paperweight [Helen Gurley Brown] # helengurleybrown The New York Times ' recent Helen Gurley Brown hagiography, " Helen Gurley Brown, As Others Saw Her ," is a mostly uninspiring rundown of anecdotes about the recently deceased Cosmopolitan editor. But about halfway down, in a passage from Brown's former book editor, Michael Korda, things get good: More » Helen Gurley Brown, the original Carrie Bradshaw FILE - In this Sept. 20, 1982 file photo, Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown poses during an interview at her office in New York. Brown, longtime editor of Cosmopolitan magazine, died Monday, Aug. 13, 2012 at a hospital in New York after a brief hospitalization. Helen Gurley Brown's success "I care a lot. I think of Cosmopolitan all day, and I run scared. So it's a combination of fright, caring and anxiety. My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense." Helen Gurley Brown was a genius, says Liz Jones, but she sold us an impossible dream Cosmo created a world where I could have sex and fall in love; where I could have an amazing career, the world at my expensively shod feet, while smelling of Charlie. But it was an illusion.
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