Riot gurl: Celebrating Helen Gurley Brown's sexy, radical feminism No description available Icon'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." What does that mean for her legacy? 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. 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." 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 » Cosmo icon Helen Gurley Brown dies Brown first became famous with a best-selling 1962 book called "Sex and the Single Girl." Riding in elevators with Helen Gurley Brown For a writer in the Cosmopolitan empire, there was no greater thrill than getting her nod of approval Helen Gurley Brown and the Economics of Erotic Capital Helen Gurley Brown in 1964. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Appreciation: Helen Gurley Brown, the original Carrie Bradshaw NEW YORK — Before there was "Sex and the City," there was "Sex and the Single Girl." And before there was Carrie Bradshaw, there was Helen Gurley Brown.
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