Candace Bushnell
It was scary how a girl couldn't live without friends.Collection: Girl
Patent leather wedges-they were big when I went to prom!Collection: Patents
Man might have identified fire, but women identified the way to enjoy with it.Collection: Men
Grace was one of those types who never changed but only aged and had no apparent expectations or ambitions other than the wish that her life should remain the same.Collection: Ambition
I do not pick the wrong guys. They pick me.Collection: Guy
If a woman could take care of herself, would she still need a man? Would she even want one? And if she didn't want a man, what kind of woman would she be? Would she even be a woman? Because it seemed if you were a woman, the only thing you were really supposed to want was a man.Collection: Men
Out of all the neighborhoods in Manhattan, Soho in particular had the charged atmosphere of a movie set, populated with passersby who looked like extras from Central Casting, so perfectly did they fit into this environment. There was the feeling of everything being not quite real, or too perfectly cliched to actually be true, and it began to rain in a fine, misty drizzle from a black patent leather sky.Collection: Real
What if I'm a princess on another planet? And no one on this planet knows it?Collection: Princess
At first, being with Sebastian was like being in the middle of the best dream I'd ever had - but now it mostly feels exhausting. I'm up one minute and down the next; questioning what I say and do. Even questioning my sanity.Collection: Dream
Men, Babies, it doesn't matter...we're soulmatesCollection: Baby
My decorating and renovation skills are nil - indeed, I once used a shower curtain from Pottery Barn as 'window dressing.Collection: Skills
A glittering disco ball spins from the ceiling, but the music is something I've never heard, discordant and haunting and insistent, the kind of music that demands you dance.Collection: Ceilings
This is the most powerful thing I can do! I'm going to be a writer.Collection: Powerful
We're comfortable with movie stars having money. We're comfortable with a woman marrying a rich guy and having money. We're not so comfortable with a woman independently working in business and making a lot of money.Collection: Stars
All men are a disappointment. No matter what anyone says.Collection: Disappointment
I don't consider my work a job. I consider it a career. And you don't quit a career.Collection: Jobs
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, be unacceptable in the other.Collection: Sex
I'm not ashamed of anything I've done. Shame is a useless emotion.Collection: Done
You choose the end of the summer to fall in love with this guy because secretly, you don’t want it to last.Collection: Summer
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.Collection: Thinking
I can safely conclude that we are single because we want to be.Collection: Want
For me, having it all is being paid to write novels.Collection: Writing
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 change, so do cities, people come into your life and they go. But it's comforting to know that the ones you love are always in your heart... and if you're very lucky, a plane ride awayCollection: Baby
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.Collection: Heart
Love is dangerous, if you know it's dangerous, that makes you treasure it, and you'll work harder to keep it.Collection: Love Is
And the sooner you do the right thing, the better. You get it over with, and you don’t have to worry about it anymore. But who does that in real life?Collection: Real
sometimes the best thing to do is to pretend it didn't happenCollection: Sometimes
And if you were always spending your time getting over your past, how were you supposed to get on with your future?Collection: Past
In life,there are only four kinds of girls: The girl who played with fire. The girl who opened Pandora's Box. The girl who gave Adam the apple. And the girl whose best friend stole her boyfriend.Collection: Girl
A guy who is crazily, madly in love with you. A guy who sees how incredible and amazing you are, even though you’re not the cheerleader or even close to the prettiest girl in the school. A guy who thinks you’re beautiful, just the way you are.Collection: Beautiful
Like me, he has a searing belief that books are sacred. They might not be to other people, but when you have a passion, you hold on to it. You defend it. You dont pretend it isn't important at the risk of offending others." -Carrie.Collection: Book
The most important thing in business is a persona, Nico,' he was fond of saying. 'People want to know immediately what they're dealing with. And when they think about you, you've got to stand out in their minds--like one of those characters in a novel.Collection: Business
Who am I supposed to be again? Just be yourself. But who am I?Collection: Being Yourself
I can't wait to get out of the house. I can't wait to get out of here. I've been telling myself this all week. The 'getting out of here' part is unspecified, though. Maybe I simply want to get away from lifeCollection: Waiting
I can only hope he's an Aries and not a Scorpio.Collection: Scorpios
You can get used to anything, I guess, if you've been there enough.Collection: Inspirational
It's hard to be careful, though, when you feel indestructible.Collection: Be Careful
Funny always makes the bad things go away.Collection: Going Away
Sometimes I think all the trouble in the world is caused by men. If there were no men, women would always be happy. ~CarrieCollection: Men
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.Collection: Princess
I think, when men tell women to lose weight, it's a diversion from their own lack of size in certain areas.Collection: Men
Rule number three: Best friends always think you deserve the best guy even if the best guy barely knows you exist.Collection: Thinking
The heart wants what the heart wantsCollection: Heart
It's always the people who don't want things who get them.Collection: People
What Sex and the City did for sex and relationships, Lipstick Jungle does for success and power.Collection: Sex
Rule number one: Why is it that the one time a cute guy talks to you, you have a friend who's in crisis?Collection: Cute
Some secrets are better left at that -as secrets.Collection: Secret
I don't go to parties to meet men. I go to parties to stand in a corner and watch people.Collection: Party
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.Collection: Art