tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-626594980028435818.post667031692537910042..comments2024-03-28T12:20:33.105-04:00Comments on Sightings Over Sixty: Remember Her?Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08611148987085476580noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-626594980028435818.post-23003946409965321462015-11-10T21:27:20.892-05:002015-11-10T21:27:20.892-05:00We men owe a lot to her pioneering efforts.We men owe a lot to her pioneering efforts.Jonohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18170214396483091419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-626594980028435818.post-26605398199467464552015-11-07T21:34:18.980-05:002015-11-07T21:34:18.980-05:00We did laugh about articles in Cosmo when I was in... We did laugh about articles in Cosmo when I was in college. Lots of eye rolling. Maybe that is the difference between those of us born in the late '50s and those before us. <br /> Really? Sleeping your way to the top? How sexist is that???? Janettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10054888725603183006noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-626594980028435818.post-25918518874055659032015-11-07T13:00:58.131-05:002015-11-07T13:00:58.131-05:00HGB was never high on my list of people to admire....HGB was never high on my list of people to admire. She didn't speak for all women, only those who were at the fringe. That's the problem, the fringe amoung women always makes the most noise and many overlook the silent others.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-626594980028435818.post-59293278613608760222015-11-04T21:52:31.948-05:002015-11-04T21:52:31.948-05:00Love the quote on that last line. Sounds like some...Love the quote on that last line. Sounds like something Mae West might have said.stephen Hayeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17659054447637207734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-626594980028435818.post-30643152176348087252015-11-04T18:20:41.082-05:002015-11-04T18:20:41.082-05:00Helen Gurley Brown's book and Philip Roth"...Helen Gurley Brown's book and Philip Roth"s "Portnoy's Complaint" made for exciting reading for me when I was single in New York.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-626594980028435818.post-78745398591261460432015-11-04T16:58:20.260-05:002015-11-04T16:58:20.260-05:00I read Cosmopolitan for many years, even when I wa...I read Cosmopolitan for many years, even when I was no longer a young girl. I only gave up on it when I outgrew it in real time.Frikohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04277167831642088694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-626594980028435818.post-51054426549941217072015-11-04T16:39:52.009-05:002015-11-04T16:39:52.009-05:00I do remember Cosmos. It was a fun read, but even...I do remember Cosmos. It was a fun read, but eventually too focused on the sex part of life and not the intellectual. LIke Playboy it seemed to me to stagnate a bit.Taborhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15257045780724471840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-626594980028435818.post-54250796534869848002015-11-04T14:59:38.861-05:002015-11-04T14:59:38.861-05:00OMG, I remember my father ranting -- in the wake o...OMG, I remember my father ranting -- in the wake of her book and her re-imagining Cosmopolitan --that<br />"she is the dirtiest woman in America!" Sounded pretty enticing to me. I read her book in secret and while I found some of the advice just off the wall and not my style, I did like what it -- and she -- represented. I was a much bigger fan of Betty Freidan and Gloria Steinen, but I think that Helen Gurley Brown also played an important role in helping women to take charge of their own lives.Dr. Kathy McCoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02903015507894951725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-626594980028435818.post-5035035595022028562015-11-04T14:13:52.578-05:002015-11-04T14:13:52.578-05:00I was totally into my teenage years when the book...I was totally into my teenage years when the book came out. I was a little too young but I definitely remember the big to-do about it. Funny though I can't remember if I read it later on or not. I did read Cosmo from cover to cover for many years when I was a working girl. My lifestyle wasn't as lose as some of those she wrote about but it helped me make decisions as to what I would and would not do with my life. <br /><br />A couple of years back I happened to see Cosmo on line and read an article or two. Now I know what my parents must have thought of Sex and the Single Girl. Not something I want the granddaughters to read. Hahaha. Do as I say, not as I did. Barbarahttp://www.babybloggingboomer.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-626594980028435818.post-87358103487102294822015-11-04T12:13:17.835-05:002015-11-04T12:13:17.835-05:00I have very mixed feelings about HGB as she still ...I have very mixed feelings about HGB as she still emphasized the sexuality of women in the workplace and sleeping one's way to the top. Having said that, she was a one of a kind, in yer face woman who had it all - on her terms. Though she surely was privileged from the get-go and could hardly relate to the poorer classes. Bootstraps are only a component of success.<br /><br />XO<br />WWWWisewebwomanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15281689872840844191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-626594980028435818.post-51317884056756343032015-11-04T10:42:23.676-05:002015-11-04T10:42:23.676-05:00I knew this one! I read her book and thought she ...I knew this one! I read her book and thought she was way ahead of her time. Loved it, Tom. :-)DJanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07152183871573797791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-626594980028435818.post-1580320537421998392015-11-04T09:23:35.716-05:002015-11-04T09:23:35.716-05:00I so remember that book just 18 I read it from cov...I so remember that book just 18 I read it from cover to cover, this was one smart lady and I appreciated her advice immensely..I followed a lot of her advice, I married at 26 and never lived with my husband and no this and that either..I worked and worked and worked and kept my money safe..Lived nicely and have learned ladies do have a better time of it now, still there is such a disparity in salaries our only makes a mans wage cause she would never work for nothing, she said this at 2 years old, she is smart and beautiful and just turned 38 yesterday, she travels and has a great life, she had a cat for many years she passed last month and it was hard on her but she has a great life, she doesn't want kids and a husband well we see about that, this lady was extraordinary in that she was well before her time in the 50's and 60's and 70's she worked well into her later years always a Lady and smart as could be..RIP to a wonderful wonderful human being!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com