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Helen Gurley Brown, RIP
Cosmo never spoke to me. But there was so much to admire about Helen Gurley Brown. She was a pioneer who popularized the notion that women actually enjoyed sex, and an entrepreneur who married late in her 30’s (which was ancient in 1959) only after she was a success. She famously said, “Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.”
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RIP, HGB! Thank you for recognizing and publicizing the fact that sex does have a role in the single woman’s life! Back in 1962, when Sex and the Single Girl was released, this was a big deal. That it ISN’T a big deal anymore is partly due to her.
Tomorrow I’m staying home from work to cook and celebrate Julia Child’s 100th birthday (who famously didn’t get married until her mid-30s). I will have to raise my glass in a toast to honor Helen Gurley Brown as well!
Are you cooking something from Julia Child’s repertoire?
A French chicken recipe, but not from one of her cookbooks. I’ll probably make chicken Provencal from a different French cookbook (I don’t actually own any of hers). And a 6-inch peach tart, because a regulation-size tart just leaves me with too many leftovers! The peaches were delicious so I decided to bake a tart tomorrow with some of them. Unfortunately, a 95% crop loss because of the warm March followed by several April frosts.
This food sounds so good!!
Wendy, thanks for the HGB post. I remember my Mother bring home the Cosmo with the Burt Reynolds centrefold – my first peek at a nude man! EEK! And what a concept! Women wanting men for something other than marriage and maybe not forever after. Imagine that. I too was a book reader, but the some of the Cosmo ethos got into my world big time and I have always thought Cosmo girls are just as much feminists as any of us. And I think this more so now that I am in my 50’s than ever. Bless her. ps happy weddings bring out the best party person in us I think – all that love in the air is so contagious and helps us love life just that much more,even if just for a bit of time. Glad you brought some of that love home for yourself.