18 February: Helen Gurley Brown quotes

On her birthday, 10 quotes from Helen Gurley Brown, who was editor in Chief of Cosmopolitan magazine for 32 years.

1. Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.
2. Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.
3. Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.
4. Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody.
5. My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.
6. Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep.
7. What you have to do is work with the raw material you have, namely you, and never let up.
8. Feeling insecure is good for you. It forces you to do something better, drives you to use all your talents.
9. Laugh a little when the joke's on you.
10. The most successful women in the world are still totally, crushingly vulnerable. So are most successful men.

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Settling the Score

Another collection of short stories, even more murder and mayhem with carol singers, an orchestra out for revenge, a sinister magic stone and a haunted mansion.

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A Tale of Two Sisters

During a battle with supervillains, a horrific accident leaves the Warner family with no option but to believe their youngest daughter, Jessica, is dead. It doesn't occur to them that the bad guys could, or would, save her.

Jessica wakes up with no memory of who she is or how she came to be on a space station with two bionic legs, a bionic arm and a bionic eye. She is told her family abandoned her and is sent back to Earth with a mission - to kill them. While Jessica wants to kill her family, along with the twin boys who once rejected her, she knows what the Alliance of Supervillains are asking her to do is a suicide mission. She decides to get her revenge in her own way.

As Jessica puts the first part of her revenge plan in motion, she finds herself with an agonising decision to make. Before she can decide, the Alliance come for her, determined to make her do their bidding. This time, it's the Alliance who leave her, crippled and at the mercy of the Warner family, who have no idea who the Alliance's Black Rose really is.

Jessica finds herself having to re-think her decisions in light of what she now learns about her family, the Alliance, the twins, and herself. It would appear the Alliance have left her with an unwanted and permanent reminder of her time with them. Or have they?

Jessica's older sister, Jill, knows her destiny is to be a doctor and specialise in bionics and genetic variant medicine. She is also hopelessly in love with Christopher, Crown Prince of Galorvia. Can their romance survive the lies Christopher told her when they were both at school, an unplanned pregnancy and Sophie, the wannabe princess who comes between them?

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