“I’m a realist. Just because you had sex once doesn’t mean you have to fall in love.” — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
Love is dangerous, if you know it's dangerous, that makes you treasure it, and you'll work harder to keep it. — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
Some people are settling down, some people are settling and some people refuse to settle for anything less than butterflies. — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
Love is spiritual. It's about self-sacrifice and commitment. And discipline. You cannot have true love without discipline and respect. When you lose… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
The women I know who have children and have careers, they seem to be very happy. They love their children and they… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
If you believe in love, you're setting yourself up to be disappointed. — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
A guy who is crazily, madly in love with you. A guy who sees how incredible and amazing you are, even though… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
That's the difference between girls and women: Girls find men fascinating. Women know better. — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
“I'm looking for love. Real love. Ridiculous, inconvenient, consuming, can't-live-without-each-other love.” — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
We need to encourage young women to find what they love to do. That is a very valuable pursuit - more so… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
maybe he's falling in love with the idea of falling in love with me. Maybe he wants to be in love with… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
You need characters who want things. They want love, they want recognition, they want happiness. — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You choose the end of the summer to fall in love with this guy because secretly, you don’t want it to last. — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
I'm the kind of person who would have liked to have lived at the Plaza. I love crystal chandeliers and gold leaf,… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
“He’s probably one of those “love the one you’re with” guys -- meaning he automatically goes after whatever woman happens to be… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
“I’ve had boyfriends before, and frankly, each one was a disappointment. There was nothing horribly wrong with these boys. It was my fault. I’m… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
We hate guys who date more than one woman at a time. I've always believed that what's unacceptable in one sex should, by definition,… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
“The car was on the FDR drive now and, turning her head, she glanced out at the bleak brown buildings of the projects that… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society. — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
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. — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
Growing up, nobody I knew even knew a writer. So it was a big adventure and something that I've wrestled with my whole life.… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
“The city was different back then--poor and crumbling--kept alive only by the gritty determination and steely cynicism of its occupants. But underneath the dirt… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
All those men who end up disappointing you. After a while, you don't even want to have feelings anymore. You just want to get… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
I'm not ashamed of anything I've done. Shame is a useless emotion. — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
