I think that they're characters who women either are themselves or are their friends. (Candace Bushnell)
The novel asks the question, why shouldn't a woman be as successful as a man, and what does it take to get there And if a woman wants to have a successful career, a happy marriage, and children... what personal sacrifices does she need to make (Candace Bushnell)
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. (Candace Bushnell)
What I tried to do with the characters is put them in the same situation that powerful and successful men often find themselves, ... I'm fascinated by what it's like to be a woman in one of those powerful positions because there is really no road map about how you're supposed to behave. Just as society needs to re-evaluate our ideas about femininity and what women can do, we as women need to re-evaluate our ideas about it too. (Candace Bushnell)
I was all excited. I'd been writing for women's magazines and felt marginalized. No one takes you seriously. (Candace Bushnell)
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. (Candace Bushnell)
Well I actually do have a country house in Connecticut with a population of 3,000. Like, how small is that? I spend a lot of time there - I write up there. So I kind of have the best of both worlds and I love going up there. (Candace Bushnell)
The women in this book have realized that you can't completely rely on men, ... Women have got to rely on themselves. (Candace Bushnell)
I certainly don't want to be out till 4 to 5 in the morning now -- I don't want to do that anymore, (Candace Bushnell)
When I started writing 'Sex and the City,' I was writing about women I knew in New York who were in their 30s. In a way, this is the women I was writing about in 'Sex and the City' 10 years later. They're more grown-up, more established. They've found their ways, (Candace Bushnell)
That's kind of a difficult question, because people say I'm one of the people who started it ... but I think my books are much more satirical. (Candace Bushnell)
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. (Candace Bushnell)
It's really about the challenges, dreams and fears of contemporary, modern women. (Candace Bushnell)
This is about women trying to become their own Mr. Big for themselves. It's about the new kind of successful career women who we're seeing on the pages of Fortune magazine. (Candace Bushnell)
It was like time began to reverse, and somehow they managed to look better and younger-looking than they had in their thirties, (Candace Bushnell)
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