Helen Gurley Brown may be gone, but her message to women that they can do anything -- and, with a few caveats, anyone -- they wanted lives on. Many...

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.

I spent years obsessing over all things Helen Gurley Brown when I was researching and writing my book about trying everything she recommends in Sex and the Single Girl.

This woman could and should have been spending her retirement eating bonbons on a yacht off the south of France, and instead she was pouring her energy into supporting other women.

While Friedan set out to help make women equal among men, Gurley Brown set out to make single women equal among all women.

Helen Gurley Brown unquestionably changed the face of women's media. She transformed Cosmopolitan when she served as its editor-in-chief of from 1965 ...