Helen Gurley Brown's mixed legacy

By Emanuella Grinberg, CNN (CNN) -- Longtime Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown was a self-described "devout feminist" who paradoxically preached that "if you're not a sex object, you're in trouble." Another of herHelen Gurley Brown, who died this week at 90, embodied countless contradictions. In her first book, “Sex and the Single Girl” (1962), Brown scandalized the nation by arguing that single women ought to have lives of sexual fulfillment rather than ofIs anybody else having a hard time deciding how they feel about Helen Gurley Brown? A pretty photo

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