Candace Bushnell Quotes

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• 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 allows you to…
• I actually don't shop very much. I have a tendency to rotate a few pairs of ripped jeans and an old cashmere sweater.
• Well in the book Carrie was my alter ego. In real life, Sarah Jessica and I don't look anything alike. But people do say that…
• 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…
• 'Lipstick Jungle' was on the air for 20 episodes - I loved 'Lipstick Jungle.'
• 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 joke that I make is that there are instances on the TV series that happen to me, - except on Sex and the City…
• Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.
• When I was 8, I was reading a book in which it was snowing. When I looked outside, I expected there to be snow on…
• Well I actually do have a country house in Connecticut with a population of 3,000. Like, how small is that? I spend a lot of…
• The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but…
• Why do I keep evading my work? Is it because I’m afraid of being confronted by my lack of abilities?
• The universe may not always play fair, but at least it's got a hell of a sense of humor.
• Whoever we are here, we might be princesses somewhere else. Or writers. Or scientists. Or presidents. Or whatever the hell we want to be that…
• The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick Jungle' woman.
• The key to life is your attitude. Whether you're single or married or have kids or don't have kids, it's how you look at your…
• Patent leather wedges-they were big when I went to prom!
• I don't go to parties to meet men. I go to parties to stand in a corner and watch people.
• Happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are, what you love.
• For me, having it all is being paid to write novels.

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