The message was: So you're single. You can still have sex. You can have a great life. And if you marry, don't just sponge off a man or be the gold-medal-winning mother. Don't use men to get what you want in life - - get it for yourself.

When I wrote 'Sex and the Single Girl,' which was the precursor to Cosmopolitan, if you didn't have a husband, you might as well go to the Grand Canyon and throw yourself in. And if you were having sex with a man you were not married to? Well, your reputation was just shot.

No office anywhere on earth is so puritanical, impeccable, elegant, sterile or incorruptible as not to contain the yeast for at least one affair, probably more. You can say it couldn't happen here, but just let a yeast raiser into the place and first thing you know - bread!

good girls go to heaven and bad girls go everywhere

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

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