Quotes by Candace Bushnell

“Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it.”

“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 ...”

“The universe may not always play fair, but at least it's got a hell of a sense of humor.”

“Maybe our girlfriends are our soulmates and guys are just people to have fun with.”

“Thank goodness for the first snow, it was a reminder--no matter how old you became and how much you'd seen, things could still be new if you were willing to believe they still mattered.”

“Something good happens to you, and you let off a different energy that attracts other good things.”

“People are always telling women to lose weight, and then when they do, other women attack them for it.”

“If everyone in New York took sides over these petty, insignificant arguments, no one would have any friends at all.”

“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.”

“Rule number one: Why is it that the one time a cute guy talks to you, you have a friend whos in crisis?”

“As long as one refuses to know one's place, there's no telling what one can do in the world.”

“A writer must be fearless. A writer has to be like a clawed animal."-The Carrie Diaries pg. 337”

“it's telling yourself that you want the things that society tells you you should want. women thikn that survival depends on conformity. but for some women, conformity is death. it's a death to the ...”

“It was ironic, but when you scratched the surface, most successful men were working for one thing only--to retire--and the sooner the better. Whereas women were the complete opposite. She had never...”

“Life gives you lots of chances to screw up which means you have just as many chances to get it right.”

“You can get used to anything, I guess, if you've been there enough.”

“The car was on the FDR drive now and, turning her head, she glanced out at the bleak brown buildings of the projects that stretched for blocks along the drive. Something inside her sank at the sigh...”

“My anger is like some rudimentary, single-celled beast, an exploding virus of fury that paralyses rational thought and blinds me to everything except one single goal...”

“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 was the apple-cheeked optimism of pos...”

“There are worse things than being thirty-five, single, and female in New York. Like: Being twenty-five, singled, and female in New York. It's a rite of passage few women would want to repeat. It's ...”