Helen Gurley Brown

Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.

Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

What people don't understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher's wife. From Alberta down to Texas I've known women like that: good common sense, bright and vilified by city people.