Quotes from Candace Bushnell

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

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

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

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

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

I think when I was 12, I started reading Evelyn Waugh, and I loved Evelyn Waugh so much, and I thought: 'This is how the world really is. If I could be Evelyn Waugh, then I would be happy.'

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.

Like it or not, in the end, it's one's body. It's literally what carries you through life. There's a reason for the saying, 'If you have your health, you have everything,' and it's true. Old age, disease - these are the great equalizers.

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

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

My anger is like some rudimentary, single-celled beast, an exploding virus of fury that paralyses rational thought and blinds me to everything except one single goal...

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

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