Quotes from Candace Bushnell

I do not pick the wrong guys. They pick me.

All those men who end up disappointing you. After a while, you don't even want to have feelings anymore. You just want to get on with your life.

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

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

That's the difference between girls and women: Girls find men fascinating. Women know better.

Maybe the past is like an anchor holdong us back. Maybe you have to let go of who you were to become who you will be.

Retribution is tricky. . . . The insult isn't usually worth the risk of punishment. And eventually one learns that karma has a surprising way of taking care of these situations. All you have to do is sit back and watch.

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

If you believe in love, you're setting yourself up to be disappointed.

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

Funny always makes the bad things go away.

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

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

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

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

It's tempting to wish for the perfect boss, the perfect parent, or the perfect outfit. But maybe the best any of us can do is not to quit, play the hand we've been dealt, and accessorize what we've got.

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.

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

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 was a freelancer all through my twenties. I did about one story a month and I wanted to write fiction, so the stories that I would do were precursors to 'Sex and the City.'

I started writing about New York as soon as I arrived. I was 19. I used to write short stories and send them out.

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

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

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.