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 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.
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.
The women in this book have realized that you can't completely rely on men, ... Women have got to rely on themselves.
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,
It's really about the challenges, dreams and fears of contemporary, modern women.
The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick Jungle' woman.
Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.
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