gail sheehy wrote about her for the daily beast.uthor of 16 books and writes for vanity fair and other publications. gail sheehy, good to see you again. >> happy to be with you, judy. woodruff: you knew, as we said, helen gurley brown very well. tell us a little bit about her life that would help us undetandow s bece the person she was. >> well, she turnedded her back on a conventional woman's life at the age of seven. that was 1929. she came from nothing. father died early. her mother was impoverished. she had a crippledded sister. she was really a horatio al jer hero. she emanated a new american dream, the idea of the slf-made won. >> woodruff: where did that come from? you were telling us today there was this self-reliance that stood out in helen gurley brown. where did that come from? >> she just... she was a very plucky girl. she didn't want to be a hill billy left in arkansas. she wanted to be a successful woman. she had the idea that she could actually do that without getting married until she got good and ready and found mr.

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