Enter Helen

To my parents, Terry and Michelle Hauser, the best of partners;

and to my husband, Addison MacDonald,

whom I lean on and look forward to seeing every day.

Funny business, a woman's career—the things you drop on your way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. That's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman. . . . And in the last analysis, nothing's any good unless you can look up just before dinner or turn around in bed, and there he is. Without that, you're not a woman. You're something with a French provincial office or a book full of clippings, but you're not a woman.

—Margo Channing (Bette Davis), in
All About Eve,
1950

She is such a feeling person that her work is almost surely colored by her own sensitivities. But her work is her kingdom, alas, only eight hours per day. As mentioned above, she is a feeling being. She is completely aware of her own longings—to be needed, to be reassured that she is attractive and desirable, to belong intimately somewhere to someone. She is all Woman.

—from a 1957 job evaluation of Miss Helen Marie Gurley, a copywriter at Foote, Cone & Belding