Candace Bushnell Quotes - Page 2

I think, when men tell women to lose weight, it's a diversion from their own lack of size in certain areas.

I love things that are old and glittery, that come with layers of glamour and past lives.

It's hard to be careful, though, when you feel indestructible.

Funny always makes the bad things go away.

Sometimes I think all the trouble in the world is caused by men. If there were no men, women would always be happy. ~Carrie

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

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 everyone else says we can't.

Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.

Rule number three: Best friends always think you deserve the best guy even if the best guy barely knows you exist.

The heart wants what the heart wants

It's always the people who don't want things who get them.

What Sex and the City did for sex and relationships, Lipstick Jungle does for success and power.

Rule number one: Why is it that the one time a cute guy talks to you, you have a friend who's in crisis?

Some secrets are better left at that -as secrets.

I don't go to parties to meet men. I go to parties to stand in a corner and watch people.

He leans over and kisses me. And suddenly, my life splits in two: before and after.

Why do magazines do this to women? It's all about creating insecurity. Trying to make women feel like they're not good enough. And when women don't feel like they're good enough, guess what? Men win. That's how they keep us down.

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.

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 as a person.

I can safely conclude that we are single because we want to be.

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

You choose the end of the summer to fall in love with this guy because secretly, you don’t want it to last.

All men are a disappointment. No matter what anyone says.

I don't consider my work a job. I consider it a career. And you don't quit a career.

I'm certainly not going to put my life on hold for him.