Candace Bushnell

The only way to look at men is like they're electrons. They have all these charges sticking out, and they're always looking…

— Candace Bushnell

I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It…

— Candace Bushnell

Guys are like dogs: they never notice if you've changed your hair, but they can sense when there's another guy sniffing around…

— Candace Bushnell

“Just because someone is a girl doesn't mean she can't be tough and practical and have adventures. That's the way most girls…

— Candace Bushnell

Just because something doesn't last forever, it doesn't mean it wasn't meaningful while it did last. It doesn't mean it wasn't important.

— Candace Bushnell

The women I know who have children and have careers, they seem to be very happy. They love their children and they…

— Candace Bushnell

I've been writing fiction probably since I was about 6 years old, so it's something that is second nature to me now.…

— Candace Bushnell

“Have I become the girl who waits by the phone, hoping it will ring, who asks a friend to dial her number…

— Candace Bushnell

Even as a kid, I never liked breakfast. I just don't like to eat then. I like to get up and work.…

— Candace Bushnell

At first, being with Sebastian was like being in the middle of the best dream I'd ever had - but now it…

— Candace Bushnell

We need to encourage young women to find what they love to do. That is a very valuable pursuit - more so…

— Candace Bushnell

The '80s was all about this idea that women could have it all. You could have a career, and you could have…

— Candace Bushnell

Sometimes I want to be on 'The Real Housewives of New York.' I want to remind them to figure out how to…

— Candace Bushnell

- I don't want to be a writer so I can write about my life. I want to be a writer to…

— Candace Bushnell

“I will not listen to you, or anybody else. Because you know what? Everyone think they know so goddamned much about everything…

— Candace Bushnell

I love Chicago. I lived there briefly for three months and kept a boat under one of those space-age buildings. It was…

— Candace Bushnell

I wish I was one of those persnickety types who buys guidebooks and studies them, but I don't have the inclination or…

— Candace Bushnell

My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship…

— Candace Bushnell

The world is full of people who all want the same thing, and you have to do a little something extra to…

— Candace Bushnell

Well in the book Carrie was my alter ego. In real life, Sarah Jessica and I don't look anything alike. But people…

— Candace Bushnell

Well I actually do have a country house in Connecticut with a population of 3,000. Like, how small is that? I spend…

— Candace Bushnell

Like it or not, in the end, it's one's body. It's literally what carries you through life. There's a reason for the…

— Candace Bushnell

She didn't want to have anything to do with the party. She was tired of feeling like she didn't fit in, but…

— Candace Bushnell

Should, is the worst word in the English language. People always think things "should" be a certain way, and when they're not,…

— Candace Bushnell

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

— Candace Bushnell

You don't have to do everything by the time you're 30. Or 40. All you need is a work ethic. It's what…

— Candace Bushnell