Candace Bushnell Quotes

After all, it's woman, who decide, if a man is desirable or undesirable.

What if I'm a princess on another planet? And no one on this planet knows it?

... he was juggling issues and solving problems, which was why his brain had no space left for memories.

Patent leather wedges-they were big when I went to prom!

Why do I keep evading my work? Is it because I’m afraid of being confronted by my lack of abilities?

Meanwhile I'll probably see him again. That's how sick I am.

New York is a city where people are ambitious. They want things.

The heart wants what the heart wants

The heart wants what the heart wants," she says, somewhat cryptically. I purse my lips in disapproval. "You'd think the heart would know better.

I've always thought there are two ways of getting what you wanted in life.Forcing people to give it to you,or making them want to give it to you.

It's hard to be careful, though, when you feel indestructible.

Always look like you know where you're going, even when you don't

I can safely conclude that we are single because we want to be.

Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free until they find someone just as wild to run with them. -Carrie Bradshaw

Funny always makes the bad things go away.

I know I have to do the right thing. And the sooner you do the right thing, the better. You get it over with, and you don't have to worry about it anymore. But who does that in real life? Instead, you procrastinate and think about it and put it off and think about it some more until that one little pebble grows into a giant block inside your head.

There's a brief moment when you first wake up, where you have no memories. A blissful blank slate, a happy emptiness.

Have I ever been in love? Really in love? And why is it that with each new guy I think I'm more in love with him than the last?

I make mistakes. That's what I do. I speak without thinking, I act without knowing. I drink so much that I can barely walk...I'm a fantastic lover though, and an amazing friend. God knows I mean well.

Money follows art. Money wants what it can't buy. Class and talent. And remember while there's a talent for making money, it takes real talent to know how to spend it.

Man might have identified fire, but women identified the way to enjoy with it.

. . . She was obsessed with clothes and status, how she never gave a thought to being responsible for her own actions, or even what she might do for anyone else-making her the ultimate example of all that was wrong and misguided about young women today.

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

Why do magazines do this to women? It's all about creating insecurity. Trying to make women feel like they're not good enough. And when women don't feel like they're good enough, guess what? Men win. That's how they keep us down.

I don't consider my work a job. I consider it a career. And you don't quit a career.

I can only hope he's an Aries and not a Scorpio.

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

You choose the end of the summer to fall in love with this guy because secretly, you don’t want it to last.

Ever since I can remember I was telling stories and had a huge interest in other people and what made them tick.

That's the difference between girls and women: Girls find men fascinating. Women know better.

I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It sometimes feels I've got a Doppelganger somewhere.

I don't like to think of myself as a 'virgin'. I prefer to think of myself as 'sexually incomplete'. You know. Like I haven't finished the course yet.

Love is spiritual. It's about self-sacrifice and commitment. And discipline. You cannot have true love without discipline and respect. When you lose the respect of your spouse, you've lost everything.

Like me, he has a searing belief that books are sacred. They might not be to other people, but when you have a passion, you hold on to it. You defend it. You dont pretend it isn't important at the risk of offending others." -Carrie.

I have to tell you, TV is an incredibly difficult medium. The most challenging show to do is the hour long dramedy. It's a very tricky format.

I'm not ashamed of anything I've done. Shame is a useless emotion.

I know I'm not a wordsmith. And I don't write poetry. Sometimes I think I should, because it's really helpful. But I always wanted to write novels.

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

Zizi was young and often confused about how to live his life, �and when he made a choice he clung to it with fierce resolve, �as if to beat his uncertainty into submission.

Maybe mistakes are what make our fate... without them what would shape our lives? Maybe if we had never veered off course we wouldn't fall in love, have babies, or be who we are. After all, things change, so do cities, people come into your life and they go. But it's comforting to know that the ones you love are always in your heart... and if you're very lucky, a plane ride away

So much of being a woman is telling lies

She didn't want to have anything to do with the party. She was tired of feeling like she didn't fit in, but she didn't want to go home, either, because she was a tired of being lonely and she was a little drunk.

If you believe in love, you're setting yourself up to be disappointed.