Sarah Jessica Parker
One of the things that's great about New York is that it is not a one-industry town. It has education, academia, the service industry, arts, publishing, theater, politics, fashion, finance, as well as movie-making.Collection: Finance
I never wanted to be a celebrity; I never wanted to be famous. And in my daily life, I work really hard to not trade on it in any way.Collection: Famous
I love, love, love being an actor - it's still the hardest and scariest thing I do, outside of parenting. But I've always been someone who likes a busy day.Collection: Parenting
I just wasn't one of those girls who dreamt of her wedding day and the birth of her first child.Collection: Wedding
I like my money right where I can see it... hanging in my closet.Collection: Money
When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often considered desperate or psycho.Collection: Romantic
My job requires me to put on a little dress and run around the streets of New York in heels. But I also had the financial means to hire a yoga teacher to come to my house while my sitter watched the newborn. For 95 percent of the world, that's not realistic.Collection: Teacher
Can you really forgive if you can't forget?Collection: Forgiveness
And if you are a parent, introduce your children to their neighborhood library. It will give them a real sense of independence to have their own library card and enjoy borrowing books.Collection: Independence
A squirrel is just a rat with a cuter outfit!
When real people fall down in life, they get right back up and keep walking.
I don't judge others. I say if you feel good with what you're doing, let your freak flag fly.
Can you make a mistake and miss your fate?
You can't be friends with a squirrel! A squirrel is just a rat with a cuter outfit.
Every once in awhile, a girl has to indulge herself.
I don't believe in email. I'm an old-fashioned girl. I prefer calling and hanging up.
Follow your instincts and do not let other people's opinion of you become your opinion of yourself.
Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate.
So many roads. So many detours. So many choices. So many mistakes.
I tell my friends married life is boring, but that's just a fun thing to say to make single people feel better.
It's like the riddle of the Sphinx... why are there so many great unmarried women, and no great unmarried men?
I believe in God, but in my own unconventional way. We're not affiliated with any organisation, and I have no religious education of any kind, but I definitely have my own kind of ideas about it.
Balls are to men what purses are to women.
As a woman, I have an inherent need to be all things to all people, to make certain everybody's taken care of. I know I can't sustain that level all the time, so I'm finding the proper balance and it's made me infinitely happier.
What I've learned about being a parent is how much you sort of secretly learn from everyone else and how valuable it is.
Do we need distance to get close?
We didn't have a lot when I was growing up, and it's the best thing that happened to me because I appreciate everything. I developed a strong work ethic, and I don't take anything for granted.
I'm aware of people's association with me and fashion and I certainly take that role on for some occasions, but it doesn't dominate my thoughts all the time.
I'm a bitter-ender. It's potentially my fatal flaw that I do not give up on something. I will not rest. I work and work and work until I can no longer and someone has to remove me from the premises.
Read the editorial page of your local paper. It introduces you to opinion and can be terrifically provocative and perhaps a great motivating force for you to get involved in your community, regardless of your political ideology.
I'm very, very concerned about the Bush presidency. I'm worried about the kinds of cuts in domestic programs that mean something to a lot of people, including members of my family, who depend on certain things from the government.
If two people have only one thought between them, something is very wrong.
When it comes to life and love, why do we believe our worst reviews?
I write about sex, not love. What do I know about love?
To be in a couple, do you have to put your single self on a shelf?
In a relationship, when does the art of compromise become compromising?
Men who are too good looking are never good in bed because they never had to be.
When I go to a premiere I like to borrow lovely clothes and shoes from designers. It's like the library: if you return them in good condition, you get to borrow more. I'm very lucky.
Most of my friends in New York are single women or gay men.
I have a fantastic husband. Here's the honeymoon part: I still think he's the funniest, wittiest, most clever man I've ever known.
I don't know how an actress is supposed to observe and create new stuff if she hasn't been on the streets, brushing up against humanity. You have to have a life.
I remember when I came home from the hospital after having my son, I wore a Narciso Rodriguez black coat. Then, I was using this fragrance that I had created. I walk by that coat, and it still smells like that fragrance. It takes you right there.
Friends are readily disappointed by the size of my closet. And I thought it was big!
The beautiful thing about New York is, you have to expose yourself to other people the minute you step outside the door. There is no choice. And I love that.
If I didn't have kids, I would be at the theater or the ballet every single night of my life.
I love the opportunity to wear something really special and go to a wonderful event at some great cultural institution.
I still like getting dressed up and having the opportunity to borrow beautiful dresses, but as a mother - and as somebody who's schedule isn't always my own - I don't shop a lot, or think about clothes a lot.
I expect I should be more calloused by now, but I am so sensitive about not ever living up to anybody's worst idea about an actor who is well-known.
It's not like it's hard to be decent and respectful and well-behaved. I do wait in line, and I do take the subway, and I do do my own grocery shopping, and I do take the kids to school.
I developed a really strong work ethic, and I don't take anything for granted.