All the greats are dropping like flies

All the greats seem to be dropping like flies. Last week Anna Piaggi and today Helen Gurley Brown passed away at the age of 90. With her 1960's Best Seller "Sex and the Single Girl", she challenged society's preconceptions and ideals of women and as a result empowered women in society. She instilled in them a new found confidence to create their own identities. This was further transpired into her work at Cosmopolitan Magazine. Brown is credited with revamping Cosmo from a dull general-interest women's magazine — in an era when the publications were helmed by Ivy League gentlemen with a less-than-regal respect for their female readers. David Carey, president of Hearst Magazines said Brown "brought the subject that every woman wanted to know about but nobody talked about, to life, literally, in Cosmo's pages." She was a powerful women with great strength of self and soul and she will be sorely missed. RIP Helen, you have helped women around the globe more than you probably know. xx