Quote of the day: Francis Phillips on Helen Gurley Brown

‘The Telegraph obituary reveals a lot about Helen Gurley Brown in its dry and understated way: “By her later years her face had been so lifted, botoxed, dermabraded and plumped with silicone that it was only residually human.”  Poor old girl.  I contrasted this pathetic image with the life (and face) of Sister Wendy Beckett, the hermit and art critic, who was interviewed recently in the Herald.  Sr Wendy, who is now in her 80s, isn’t bothered about her looks or her figure; nor, as a nun, have men figured in her life.  Yet she radiates the happiness, fulfilment and inner peace that come from having lived a deeply spiritual life, a life that is God-centred rather than self-centred.  There’s a moral in this somewhere.’ ~ Francis Phillips

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