Candace Bushnell Quotes (30 Quotes)

I think that they're characters who women either are themselves or are their friends.

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

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.

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.

I was all excited. I'd been writing for women's magazines and felt marginalized. No one takes you seriously.

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.

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.

The women in this book have realized that you can't completely rely on men, ... Women have got to rely on themselves.

I certainly don't want to be out till 4 to 5 in the morning now -- I don't want to do that anymore,

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,

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.

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.

It's really about the challenges, dreams and fears of contemporary, modern women.

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.

It was like time began to reverse, and somehow they managed to look better and younger-looking than they had in their thirties,

The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick Jungle' woman.

You could say I lived the life, I wrote the book, and then it was made into a TV series starring Sarah Jessica Parker. (The character) would have been me about four or five years ago.

When I first started writing the column and then the book came out, there were so many women who would come up to me and say This is me. This is about my life, you know, and nobody has done it before. And I think that that's what they've done really successfully with the TV series, is they made women feel like it's about their lives.

That was a character I created -- my alter ego 10 years ago. She was like me,

I think that one of the things that has changed the perception is that there are so many more single people. In New York City, it's 47 percent. When you have that many people who are single, they have a bigger voice and they're more willing to speak and say, 'We're not miserable, we're not sitting at home waiting for Mr. or Ms. Right, we're having a good time.' And I think single people have better friendships.

That's what's great about life, ... You don't have to keep doing things you did in your 30s. Besides it's not really a good look being in a club when you're 46 years old. The people in the clubs could be your children.

To me, now being in my 40s and a bit more successful, it makes you feel a little bit more generous toward other people. You don't have to male-bash.

The joke that I make is that there are instances on the TV series that happen to me, - except on Sex and the City they always make it better or worse than real life and I am actually saying that in a joking way.

I haven't signed any deals yet, but there's a lot of interest. Nothing's been finalized, but hopefully it will be in the next couple of weeks.

As might befit a Bushnell character, she had it both ways. I'm lucky. They send me the tapes, ... I will probably watch it (later).

Ms. Bushnell, whose work has always been informed by the goings-on in her personal life, said that in recent years she and her friends were having conversations about more than men, Manolos and martinis. When we get together we're not really talking about sex and relationships, ... We're talking about work and career.

Sometimes you have to find the passion. It comes from the inside... Everyone has to find it for themselves.

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.

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

Sex and the City to me never really was about sex, that was kind of the icing on the cake. Success is the new sex.