Candace Bushnell Quotes

Some people are settling down, some people are settling and some people refuse to settle for anything less than butterflies.

Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free until they find someone just as wild to run with them. -Carrie Bradshaw

My decorating and renovation skills are nil - indeed, I once used a shower curtain from Pottery Barn as 'window dressing.

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

Just because something doesn't last forever, it doesn't mean it wasn't meaningful while it did last. It doesn't mean it wasn't important.

From my experience, honey, if he seems too good to be true—he probably is.

Better alone than badly accompanied.

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 we sound alike. Sarah Jessica is an adorable girl and she is very funny.

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.

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

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 push through moments of disappointment and self-doubt and fear.

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

As Im writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.

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.

I actually don't shop very much. I have a tendency to rotate a few pairs of ripped jeans and an old cashmere sweater.

Guys are like dogs: they never notice if you've changed your hair, but they can sense when there's another guy sniffing around their territory

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.

The world is full of people who all want the same thing, and you have to do a little something extra to make them remember you.

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 got a Doppelganger somewhere.

Patent leather wedges-they were big when I went to prom!

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.

There is a thin line between attraction and repulsion

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.

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

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

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.

sometimes the best thing to do is to pretend it didn't happen

And if you were always spending your time getting over your past, how were you supposed to get on with your future?

There's a brief moment when you first wake up, where you have no memories. A blissful blank slate, a happy emptiness.

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

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

If you smile, even if you’re feeling bad, the action of the muscles will trick your brain into thinking you’re happy

You have to let go of who you were, to become who you will be.

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

Maybe all men are a drug. Sometimes they bring you down and sometimes, like now, they get you so high.

Love is dangerous, if you know it's dangerous, that makes you treasure it, and you'll work harder to keep it.

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?

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

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

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.

Happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are, what you love.

Why do I keep evading my work? Is it because I’m afraid of being confronted by my lack of abilities?

It was the first honest emotional connection I'd had in a while. So I immediately panicked and had to leave.

I have this theory: If you forgive someone, they can't hurt you anymore.

maybe he's falling in love with the idea of falling in love with me. Maybe he wants to be in love with someone and I've ended up in the right place at the right time.

What if I'm a princess on another planet? And no one on this planet knows it?

I don't like to think of myself as a 'virgin'. I prefer to think of myself as 'sexually incomplete'. You know. Like I haven't finished the course yet.

You know what they say: A woman needs a man about as much as a fish needs a bicycle.

The only way to look at men is like they're electrons. They have all these charges sticking out, and they're always looking for a hole where they can put those charges.

Men, Babies, it doesn't matter...we're soulmates