I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.'

The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick Jungle' woman.

When you're alone, it's easier," she said a little wistfully. "You can do what you want. You don't have to go home.

Maybe all men are a drug. Sometimes they bring you down and sometimes, like now, they get you so high.

Sometimes you have to find the passion. It comes from the inside... Everyone has to find it for themselves.

What Sex and the City did for sex and relationships, Lipstick Jungle does for success and power.

There's so many things that mattered so much in my 20s and 30s that don't matter now.