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She ran the magazine for more than three decades, giving it the sexually frank tone it was known for.

By Emanuella Grinberg, CNN (CNN) — 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

Helen Gurley Brown, legendary editor of Cosmopolitan and doyenne of stiletto-heeled self-empowerment, died Monday at 90. The author of "Sex and the Single Girl," Brown was widely credited for revolutionizing the precepts of women's media, transforming

WASHINGTON — The legendary Cosmo Girl, Helen Gurley Brown, has died and with her, one hopes, a not-so-fabulous legacy. This would be the demonstrably ridiculous notion that women can have it all. Whatever "it" is. In Brown's public estimation, the

If Helen Gurley Brown's favorite motto is true—“Good girls go to heaven; bad girls go everywhere”—she is now holding court in a hot place, surrounded by handsome devils. Brown died, at ninety, on Monday morning, and I

Helen Gurley Brown, legendary editor of Cosmopolitan Magazine (1965-1997), died yesterday. She was 90 years old. Admittedly, I knew nothing of the legacy of the woman who would be responsible for informing and

Helen Gurley Brown, legendary editor of Cosmopolitan Magazine (1965-1997), died yesterday. She was 90 years old. Admittedly, I knew nothing of the legacy of the woman who would be responsible for informing and

She ran the magazine for more than three decades, giving it the sexually frank tone it was known for.

Helen Gurley Brown, legendary editor of Cosmopolitan and doyenne of stiletto-heeled self-empowerment, died Monday at 90. The author of "Sex and the Single Girl," Brown was widely credited for revolutionizing the precepts of women's media, transforming

She ran the magazine for more than three decades, giving it the sexually frank tone it was known for.

The influence of Helen Gurley Brown, the former Cosmopolitan editor who died Monday at 90, extended widely across the culture, and was deeply felt in the world of magazines.

Published: August 15, 2012. YOU can debate for hours whether Helen Gurley Brown liberated women or held them back, with her salacious cover lines, big-haired scantily clad cover girls and relentless focus on improving sex lives (hers and his).

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. Brown was the flip

NEW YORK (AP) — Helen Gurley Brown, the longtime editor of Cosmopolitan magazine who invited millions of women to join the sexual revolution, has died. She was 90. Brown died Monday at a hospital in New York after a

Sexual intercourse, said Philip Larkin, began in 1963. For unmarried women in America, it began the year before, when a 40-year-old woman named Helen Gurley Brown published a book called Sex and the Single Girl. "Dear Helen," her mother wrote in a

Helen Gurley Brown, legendary editor of Cosmopolitan Magazine (1965-1997), died yesterday. She was 90 years old. Admittedly, I knew nothing of the legacy of the woman who would be responsible for informing and

The influence of Helen Gurley Brown, the former Cosmopolitan editor who died Monday at 90, extended widely across the culture, and was deeply felt in the world of magazines.

Helen Gurley Brown, who as the author of “Sex and the Single Girl” shocked early-1960s America with the news that unmarried women not only had sex but thoroughly enjoyed it — and who as the editor of Cosmopolitan magazine spent the next three

Helen Gurley Brown, who taught "mouseburgers" how to become "Cosmo girls," has died. She was the original Carrie Bradshaw, a lady

"Helen Gurley Brown, who as the author of Sex and the Single Girl shocked early-1960s America with the news that unmarried women not only had sex but thoroughly enjoyed it – and who as the editor of Cosmopolitan

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Helen Gurley Brown, the pioneering author of Sex and the Single Girl, the 1962 book which scandalized America with its stories of women having sex before marriage, and the founder of Cosmo magazine, died Monday at age 90. our editor recommends

Helen Gurley Brown, or H.G.B. as she's known in the Cosmo universe, is the patron saint of Cosmopolitan's sex-centric brand of female empowerment. The author of the then-scandalous self-help book “Sex and the Single

Author and publisher Helen Gurley Brown passed away yesterday after a brief illness. She was 90. After a successful career as a copywriter, Brown came to international prominence half a century ago with the release of her

Helen Gurley Brown, or H.G.B. as she's known in the Cosmo universe, is the patron saint of Cosmopolitan's sex-centric brand of female empowerment. The author of the then-scandalous self-help book “Sex and the Single

This article was originally published in the Washington Post on Jan. 31, 1996. NEW YORK — Helen Gurley Brown slips out of her hot-pink jacket, revealing the fact that she's not wearing a bra. This comes as a bit of a shock because celebrities rarely

NEW YORK (AP) — Helen Gurley Brown, the longtime editor of Cosmopolitan magazine who invited millions of women to join the sexual revolution, has died. She was 90. Brown died Monday at a hospital in New York after a

4:50 p.m. | Updated Helen Gurley Brown, the former editor of Cosmopolitan who transformed the magazine in the 1960s into a source of sexual empowerment for women, died Monday morning. A spokesman for the Hearst Corporation, which publishes

I once was photographed for Cosmopolitan in an editorial photograph with the logo, "What will happen to you if you become a Cosmo Girl." Well, opportunity came my way due to the credo of Helen Gurley Brown, who imbued in her readers and models that

Author and publisher Helen Gurley Brown passed away yesterday after a brief illness. She was 90. After a successful career as a copywriter, Brown came to international prominence half a century ago with the release of her

Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown poses during an interview at her office in New York in this 1982 photo. Brown, longtime editor of Cosmopolitan magazine, died Monday, Aug. 13, 2012 at a hospital in New York after a brief hospitalization. She was 90.

Fifty years after the release of her seminal book, Sex and The Single Girl, in 1962, Helen Gurley Brown has died at age 90. And while many will remember her as the editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine (1965-1997), I will remember HGB as the first

Had David Brown met Helen Gurley at twenty, she wrote, he wouldn't have looked at her, and she “wouldn't have known what to do with him.” But he was, she believed, seduced by her independence and by her singularity,

But Helen Gurley Brown's relentless message — told through her books and then through the lens of Cosmopolitan magazine, one of the most successful publications for women of all time — changed everything. I remember seeing a copy of the book in my

Had David Brown met Helen Gurley at twenty, she wrote, he wouldn't have looked at her, and she “wouldn't have known what to do with him.” But he was, she believed, seduced by her independence and by her singularity,