“I’ve never understood sexy lingerie. I mean, what’s the point? The guy’s only going to take it off.” — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
“Maybe you can’t have it both ways. His life and your life. How do you put two lives together, anyway?” — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
“I’m a realist. Just because you had sex once doesn’t mean you have to fall in love.” — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
“Have I become the girl who waits by the phone, hoping it will ring, who asks a friend to dial her number… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
“My anger is like some rudimentary, single-celled beast, an exploding virus of fury that paralyses rational thought and blinds me to everything… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“What?” She gasps. “Who did you do it with? You can’t go out there and pick up some random stranger. Oh no,… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
“If a man doesn’t ask you to marry him -- or at least live with him -- after two years, he never… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
“Lots of famous people are late bloomers. My father says it’s an advantage to be a late bloomer. Because when good things… — 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,… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
“I said, ‘Never. Because I don’t consider my work a job. I consider it a career. And you don’t quit a career.’… — 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
“On the other hand, it seemed to be working. For Samantha, anyway. And in comparison, my own relationship with Bernard was sorely… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
“Only the “˜intercourse’ part.” Miranda makes quotation marks with her fingers. “Why do they call it intercourse anyway? It makes it sound… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
“Babies! That’s all it’s about. Who ever knew the world would be all about babies?” Samantha shouts. “Every time I see a… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
“Sex. It’s the biggest sham of all. I mean, your whole life, all you ever hear is how you’re supposed to save… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
“I've become a handmaiden to other people’s relationships. Aiding and abetting. And now I’m al alone. Thank God for Miranda. I’ll always… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
“Why do magazines do this to women?” Miranda complains now, glaring at Vogue. “It’s all about creating insecurity. Trying to make women… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
“I really liked it.” She covers her mouth in horror. “If I like sex, do you think it means I can’t be… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
“Thinking you don’t have unhealthy patterns is an unhealthy pattern in itself. And everyone has something unhealthy from their childhood. If you… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
“Don’t you think it’s weird when someone has photographs of themselves all over the place? It’s like they’re trying to prove they… — 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
